Dow v. Rowe
This text of 58 N.H. 125 (Dow v. Rowe) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of New Hampshire primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The statute makes the sheriff liable for the official conduct of his deputies. Gen. St., c. 197, s. 2. The official conduct, to which the statute refers, relates to the personal acts of the deputy while in the discharge of his official duty, and not to his contracts. The attachment of the property was the official act of the deputy, while the employment of the plaintiff as keeper was his personal contract. There is nothing in the relation of sheriff and deputy that can make the sheriff liable on such contracts. Marshall v. Hosmer, 4 Mass. 60; Dooley v. Root, 13 Gray 303.
Case discharged.
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