Beacon Trust Co. v. Wright

This is an action with one count in contract and another in tort (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 231, § 7, Sixth), against a sheriff for the failure of his deputy to deposit a certified copy of the original writ, without the declaration, and so much of the return thereon as related to an attachment of land, in the registry of deeds for the Northern District of Middlesex, where the attached land lay, as provided by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 223, §§ 63-66. The trial judge, sitting without a jury, found for the plaintiff, and assessed damages in the sum of $1. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.

There was evidence…