Case ID: njl_8/html/0335-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jacob Lorillard, who has survived George Englehart v. Edward Welsted.
    Sheriff may be amerced at the term next after that to which the execution is returnable, although he had offered the property for sale and adjourned two or three times for want of bidders if he did not specially inform the plaintiff or his Attorney of the time of sale or adj ournment.
    
      Hornblower moved to amerce the Sheriff of Hunterdon, shewed due notice, and a ft. fa. &c. returned to November Term, with levy, &c., and stated that when he placed the writ in the hands of the sheriff, he specially instructed him immediately to proceed to its execution.
    ' Wurts, for the sheriff,
    did not dispute the instructions, but stated that the sheriff had offered the property for sale after November Term under advertisements, and on two or three adjournments at which no bidders appeared, and admitted that the sheriff had not specially informed the plaintiff of either.
   By the Court.

The circumstances here differ widely from those in the case of the New Brunswick Bank against Welsted, and afford no excuse to the sheriff.

Amercement ordered.