Darville

This action was brought to recover of defendant C. R. Mayhall and the other defendants, who are sureties on his official bond as constable, the value of certain personal property described in the complaint, and which property is alleged to have been wrongfully taken from the possession of plaintiff by defendant, as constable, under a writ of execution against one S. W. Darville. After trial findings were filed and

judgment entered for plaintiff. Defendants have appealed from the judgment on the judgment-roll and a bill of exceptions. Defendants’ argument is directed to the contention that the plaintiff is the wife of one S. W. Darville, and that the property was transferred to her by her said husband, and it is claimed that such transfer was not accompanied by an immediate delivery, nor followed by an actual and continued change-of possession, and for this reason the transfer is fraudulent and void. The defendants have not alleged or proven that C. E. Mayhall, in taking the property, represented any creditor. It is not shown that any judgment existed, nor that an execution was ever issued upon any judgment. The property was in the possession of plaintiff, who was a stranger to…