Case Name: J. B. Sanarens & Co. v. H. M. True et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-03
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 183
Docket Number: No. 1702
Parties: J. B. Sanarens & Co. v. H. M. True et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 183–183

Head Matter:
No. 1702.
J. B. Sanarens & Co. v. H. M. True et al.
'Where property has been provisionally seized, and it is afterwards ascertained judicially that it was not subject to the provisional seizure, the sheriff can not be held liable on account oi the insufficiency of the security on the release bond given by the owner of the property.
APPEAL from the Fourth District Court of Now Orleans. Théard, J.
B. 0. Quillet and Gollens & Wooldridge,for plaintiffs and appellees. B. Bgan and Ootton & Levy, for defendants and appellees. Hays & New, for Hays, sheriff, defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Wyly, J.
Harry T. Hays, sheriff, has appealed from a judgment making him personally liable for releasing on bond, without sufficient securities, to II. M. True, his property provisionally seized by the plaintiffs. In the case of the same title (No. 1503) just decided, we held that the property released was not liable to the provisional seizure under which it was held by the sheriff, and the writ was set aside.
The sheriff, therefore, is not liable on account of the insufficiency of the sureties on release bond, given by the owner of the property.
It is therelore ordered that the judgment of the court a qua be annulled, and it is ordered that there be judgment for the appellant, and that plaintiffs pay all costs.
Behearing refused.