Moore v. Foote
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from tbe Circuit Court of Carroll county. Hon. E. M. Rogers, judge. H. S. Eoote, as Governor of tbe State, and successor in office to Joseph W. Matthews, sued Samuel Moore, John C.M£Carty, Richard J. Johnson, J. Durdin, O. L. Kimbrough, James Z. George, P. H. Browne, J. M. Blount, and James Young, sureties of W. P. Bole, sheriff of said county, on his official bond as tax-collector, for the non-payment of the county special and poor taxes, for the year 1850, to the…
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IN error from tbe Circuit Court of Carroll county. Hon. E. M. Rogers, judge. H. S. Eoote, as Governor of tbe State, and successor in office to Joseph W. Matthews, sued Samuel Moore, John C.M£Carty, Richard J. Johnson, J. Durdin, O. L. Kimbrough, James Z. George, P. H. Browne, J. M. Blount, and James Young, sureties of W. P. Bole, sheriff of said county, on his official bond as tax-collector, for the non-payment of the county special and poor taxes, for the year 1850, to the amount of $2180, which, it was alleged and admitted, had been collected by said Bole, and that he had failed to pay…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was an action brought in the name of the Governor of this State, for the use of the Board of County Police of Carroll county, against the plaintiffs in error as sureties on the bond of William P. Bole, as tax-collector for Carroll county, to recover a certain amount of county taxes for the year 1850, collected by that officer, and remaining unpaid. The principal being dead when the suit was instituted, it was brought against the sureties alone.
The case was determined in the court below upon demurrer to the declaration, and upon an agreed state of facts, upon which it was submitted,…
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