Kesler v. . Long

A sheriff who receives claims for collection shall diligently endeavor to collect and pay them over in like manner as constables are now bound; and in default of such duty he and his sureties are liable for damages by suit on his official bond. Rev. State., ch. 109, sec. 23. This act was originally enacted in 1836. The sheriff, as well as a constable, could and often did, before the passage of this act, serve warrants and return them before magistrates, and execute any judicial process issuing from a magistrate's court, if it was directed to him as sheriff. It was, in many parts of the State,…