Case ID: scl_17/html/0457-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Colcock, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jane Brown v. Edward Wood.
    Charleston,
    March 1830.
    Trespass will not lie against a constable for taking the plaintiff’s goods, under an execution against him, sued out a upon judgment in a Magistrate’s Court,unless there is some irregularity apparent on the face of the proceedings. Evidence that the judgment was obtained by a fraud, to which the constable was a party, is inadmissible; nor will it vary the case, that the judgment was subsequently vacated for the fraud. The plaintiff’s remedy is by spe-eial action on the case, vide Me Hugh ». Pundt, ante, p. 441.
   Per

Colcock, J.

affirming the judgment of Mr. Justice Bay, at Charleston, October Term, 1829.

Johnson, J. and Richardson, J. concurred.