Case Name: J. H. Harvey and Wife vs. W. P. Harper, Shff.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 182
Docket Number: No. 5968
Parties: J. H. Harvey and Wife vs. W. P. Harper, Shff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 182–182

Head Matter:
No. 5968.
J. H. Harvey and Wife vs. W. P. Harper, Shff.
The contention that an action against a sheriff for taking an insolvent surety on a .forthcoming bond is barred after the lapse of twenty days (upon which no opinion is 'expressed) has no application if the suit is instituted, within twenty days after the bond is returned to the clerk’s office. Time begins to run, not from the date of the bond, but from the return of it to the court.
Appeal from the Second District Court of New Orleans. Tissot, J.
Lingan for Plaintiff. Horner & Benedict for Defendant Appellant.

Opinion:
De Blanc, J.,
delivered tlie opinion affirming the judgment.