Gast v. Goldenberg

This is an appeal from a decision of the Appellate Division of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, dismissing a report by a trial judge who found for the defendants in a suit by a constable upon a bond of indemnity given him by the defendants upon the making of an attachment.

On August 5, 1918, the defendants brought suit against one Angelica Costa, .and placed the writ in the hands of the plaintiff as a constable for service. The ad damnum of the writ was $150. The plaintiff was instructed by counsel for the defendants to put a keeper in the place of business of Costa, but no…