Justices of the Inferior Court v. Haygood
Supreme Court of Georgia
. Case in Clark Superior Court. Tried before Judge Jackson, at February Term, 1854. This was an action brought by the administrator of James Hendon, former Sheriff of Clark county, against the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county, alleging that one John Totty had been arrested by the Sheriff, on a ca sa, and imprisoned in the common jail of the county, from which he escaped, by reason of its insufficiency; that the Sheriff had been sued in an action of “ debt” by…
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. Case in Clark Superior Court. Tried before Judge Jackson, at February Term, 1854. This was an action brought by the administrator of James Hendon, former Sheriff of Clark county, against the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county, alleging that one John Totty had been arrested by the Sheriff, on a ca sa, and imprisoned in the common jail of the county, from which he escaped, by reason of its insufficiency; that the Sheriff had been sued in an action of “ debt” by the creditor, and made liable therefor. This suit was to recover the damages thus sustained by the Sheriff. At the first…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
Several very interesting and important questions are presented by this record; and they have been discussed with an -ability which would render us great assistance, in the endeavoxproperly to decide them. But the view which we take, of the right of the defendant in error, to maintain the action in the-Court below, against the plaintiffs in error—a question on which all. the others depend—makes it unnecessary for us to consider most of these, as that view must dispose of the case before us..
It is not for us to assume, that these points will again…
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