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1 Smith & H. 71

Northern v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1848

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1848-05-15

Debt on an official bond, against a constable, and his sureties. Two breaches were assigned. 1st. Failure to return an execution. 2d. Failure to collect the money on the execution. The defendants filed a plea to the first breach, alleging, in substance, that on the 10th oí May, 1845, the said Northern, he having previously gone out of office, delivered said execution before the return day thereof and before it had been executed, to one Peter II.

Decided 1848-05-15

¶1Held: That this section authorises a constable going out of office, to deliver to his successor unexpired executions; and of course excuses such constable from returning those so delivered, and that, consequently, the demurrer to the above plea should have been overruled.

¶2There was a plea to the second breach, that while the execution was in the hands of Northern, the execution defendant, one Griffin, had no property subject to it. Replication in denial and issue. It was proved under this issue, that in May or June, 1844, Griffin had a crop of com growing on rented land, which corn was then two or three inches high; and that he then sold said corn in good faith to one Goff. The execution in question did not issue until the month of August following; and unless the corn above mentioned was subject to it, Griffin had no property upon which the constable could have levied.

Brown and Dumont, for plaintiffs in erorr.Spooner, contra.

¶3Held: That such a sale to Gcrff' was not within the statute of frauds; and that the proof did not authorise the finding of the issue for the plaintiff.

¶4Judgment reversed, &e.

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