Case ID: va-col-dec_2/html/0B80-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Webb ag’t Elligood
    
      Appeal from New Kent
    
    S. C. Jeff. 59.
   This was an Action ag’t the (Appellant) Sherif for an Escape and upon a Special Verdict The Case was the Pit. (Respondent) had judgment against one Gilmet in Custody and prayed him in Execution He had been 32 days in Custody before at another’s Suit and the Sherif knowing him to be insolvent demanded of the Plt.’s Attorney Security for the Prison Fees who refused to give him Security and thereupon the Sherif discharged him.

The Question in this Case was whether the Sherif was obliged to keep him 20 days before he discharged him And the Court was of Opinion that he ought to have done so and affirmed the County Court’s judgment.