HAMILTON v. PAN AMERICAN SOUTHERN CORPORATION

No. 5-3241.

378 S.W.2d 652 (1964)

E. O. HAMILTON, Sheriff, Appellant, v. PAN AMERICAN SOUTHERN CORPORATION, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Dale Thweatt, DeVals Bluff, Moses, McClellan, Arnold, Owen & McDermott and James R. Howard, Little Rock, for appellant.

Roy Finch, Jr., and Thorp Thomas, Little Roch, for appellee.


WARD, Justice.

The principal question involved in this appeal relates to the liability of a sheriff for failing to make a statutory return on an execution. Most of the facts involved are not in dispute. The ones presently set out are not questioned.

Facts. In 1956 appellee, Pan American Southern Corporation, secured a judgment in the Pulaski County Circuit Court against one R. W. Coyle in the sum of $2,782.42. The judgment not having been paid, appellee...

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