Jones v. State ex rel. Pope County
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Writ of Error to Pope Circuit Court. The Hon. W. H. Feild, Circuit Judge, presiding^ The judgment must be reversed, because it does not appear that the plaintiffs in error were served with process. 1 Ark. 50. 2 Ark. 26. 1 Eng. 453. 4 Eng. 21. The truth of the breaches should have been found; and for this ’ error, the judgment must be reversed. 2 Ark. 382. 3 Eng. 477. ib. 353. 4 ib. 362. 5 ib. 258.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Watkins
This is an action upon a collector’s bond, brought against the sheriff and ex-officio assessor and collector of taxes of Pope county, and his securities. After setting out the bond and condition the breach assigned is, “that the said John W. Jones did not well and truly collect and pay over the said sum of thirteen hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-seven cents so ordered to be levied for the purposes of revenue of the said county of Pope,” whereby the said writing became and is forfeited, &c.
The endorsement on the writ would show a regular service on the defendants, but it does not…
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