Supreme Judicial Court of Maine February 3, 1913 (Spiller v. Bechard)

Savage, J.

This action is brought against the defendant, a deputy sheriff, under R. S., Chap. 86, Sect. 9. Chapter 86 relates to levies of executions on personal property, and Section 9 provides that if *222an officer so levying an execution “commits any fraud in the sale or return, he forfeits to the debtor, five times the sum of which he defrauds him, to be recovered in an action on the case.