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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Darius Chipman, Reviewer, against James Sawyer, Sheriff of Chittenden County, Reviewee.
    Vide ante, vol. 1. p. 83.
    The nominal plaintiff in ejectment cannot maintain an action against a sheriff for an escape of a defendant committed in his name for the damages and costs recovered in the action of ejectment. A sheriff, as keeper of the prison to which is committed a debtor from another County, is not liable for the negligent escape of such debtor.
    
      Israel Smith and Daniel Chipman, for plaintiff.
    
      Chauncey Langdon and John Cook, for defendant.
   • DEBT on escape, claration. Special demurrer to the de-

The demurrer was again argue at this term, and the Court confirmed the opinion of the late Judges by decisions, that nominal plaintiff in ejectment cannot maintain an action against a sheriff for an escape of a defendant committed in his name for the damages and costs recovered in the action of ejectment; and that a sheriff, as keeper of the prison to which is committed a debtor from another County, is not liable for the negligent escape of such debtor.

Judgment for defendant.