Case Name: West vs. Hughes
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1803-10
Citations: 1 H. & J. 453
Docket Number: 
Parties: West vs. Hughes.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland, form 1800 ... [to 1826]
Volume: 1
Pages: 453–453

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
OCTOBER TERM, 1803.
West vs. Hughes.
An attachment may be had against a sheriff for not returning a writ
Tais was a writ of venditioni exponas directed to the sheriff of Harford county, and returnable to this term. ' But no return being made,
Mason, for the Plaintiff,
moved the court for an attachment against the sheriff, and cited 5 Burr. 2686, 2502, 651.

Opinion:
The Court,
Let the attachment issue.