Scott v. Milton & Blackshear

Raney, C. J.:

Appellees have moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the appeal bond is insufficient in amount, and not in accordance with the law regulating appeals.

The facts are in substance that the appellees moved in the Circuit Court for a rule against appellant, as Sheriff of Jackson County, to compel him to pay over to them seventy-five dollars and nineteen cents, their pro rata share of the proceeds of personal property levied upon under certain writs of attachment and sold by him under an order of Court. The Sheriff answered setting up the prior rights of other claimants to the…