Show 1 OFFICERS ARE SUED Civil Action Over the Enforce Enforcement Enforcement Enforcement ment of a Writ of Garnishment Garnish Garnishment ment mant From Justice Court John Rugg Run filed a Damage 1 suit t against Justice of the Peace C M i Nielsen 1 Constable Benjamin Benj R Had Hd Haddock Haddock dock ock and Attorneys Ray Van Cott and Adam A Duncan m hi the Third dis dla district district court yesterday which witt be watched patched with interest The complaint c charges in brief f a ah h I violation of the exemption law as asamen asamen amen led j by the last legislature and particularly that portion of it which provides provi ea that if a married man or head h hof of a family is earning 8 2 per day or orless orless orless less he is fa en fitted td to t 1 an exemption of 30 per month etc Rugg says that a Judgment was ren rendered rendered rendered dered against him in Justice Justlee c e rt for 2725 in favor of Ray Van Cott and that the Rio Grande Western Railway alway company by whom he was Employed was garnished bed The COin com company pany panr he M adds answered that it owed him 2967 for tOl his personal oRal services ren rendered rendered rendered dered within w thirty days next preceding precedIng preceding ing the date of the writ at the rate of ot ofies otles les ies than 2 per pel day Also that Run Rugs was wa n as a married man and had a 8 family And that the earnings were necessary ary for fOT the use uee of his family etc ete Rugg Ru g sets ets out that de despite deSpite spite the return of the railroad com corn company pany and his own affidavit that he was working for 17 per pel day that less I than 90 30 was due him and that I the amount due him was exempt from execution the writ of garnishment was enforced As a result re Rugg Ru says in I conclusion he be and the members of hi hW family have suffered from hunger hun er and told old distress of mind and body and andl l 1 cn n compelled to leave the city and seek relief from former forme friends Also That they have been humiliated morti mortified mortified fied fled and distressed The asked is fur for Jr alleged manifest injustice slun slon and extortion Justice Nielsen said when he learned of the tile suit auit yesterday that the statutes did not permit a justice to be sued for any all action Ctt n taken by him In la a case and that he had nothing to fear He said sai I further that he never neer heard of sag th I matter after the execution was is issued u and that Rugg never made a proper peeped showing to have the judgment set setI aside I |