Commissioners of Beaufort v. Satchwell

This purports to be a civil action brought against the defendant and the sureties on his official bond (as sheriff) for a breach thereof, in not paying over to the county treasurer certain taxes alleged to have been collected by him.

It is an anomalous case. The original transcript sent to this court contains nothing but two summonses and a case agreed, and for aught that appears there never was any service of the summons upon any of the numerous parties; nor was any acknowledged by them; nor that the summonses were ever even in the hands of the sheriff; and a second transcript, intended to…