HUMPHREYS v. LEGGETT ET AL.


50 U.S. 297 (1850)

9 How. 297

BENJAMIN G. HUMPHREYS, APPELLANT, v. LEGGETT, SMITH, AND LAWRENCE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Gilpin, for the appellant, and Mr. Jones, for the appellees.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, Humphreys, who was complainant below, filed his bill against the defendants, praying an injunction against the issuing of an execution on a judgment they had obtained against him at law.

His bill sets forth, that he was one of the sureties of Richard Bland, late sheriff of Claiborne County, in his official bond. That in March, 1839, the present defendants...

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