Clement v. Bunn
Supreme Court of Georgia
Sheriff. Rule. Practice in the Superior Court. Before Judge Underwood. Polk Superior Court. August Term, 1877. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
The sheriff was ruled for a large sum of money on his failure to make it on a mortgage execution upon real estate.
The superior court made the rule absolute, and the sheriff excepted on two grounds: first, because the rule was made absolute for the amount due on the fi.fa., and not for the value of the land; secondly, because on the rule absolute, the court ordered execution to issue against him with 20 per cent, interest, and at the same time directed that he be attached for contempt.
1. The answer of the sheriff, not traversed but taken as true, did not set out the value of the…
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