Huson v. Martin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Sheriffs. Practice. Stay-laws. Before Judge Cole. Bibb Superior Court. May Term, 1869. Huson’s counsel ruled the sheriff for not collecting his fi. fa. against Roberts et al., obtained a judgment requiring him to pay the amount, and, on his failure to pay, an order absolute for his imprisonment till he did pay said amount to Huson. The sheriff sued out a writ of error and thus superseded said judgments.
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Sheriffs. Practice. Stay-laws. Before Judge Cole. Bibb Superior Court. May Term, 1869. Huson’s counsel ruled the sheriff for not collecting his fi. fa. against Roberts et al., obtained a judgment requiring him to pay the amount, and, on his failure to pay, an order absolute for his imprisonment till he did pay said amount to Huson. The sheriff sued out a writ of error and thus superseded said judgments. At the same time, pending this supersedeas, Huson’s counsel stated to the Court that the pretence by which the sheriff had been induced not to make the money, was that it was for a debt…
1Opinion of the CourtLochrane, C. J.
The record in this case discloses that Huson had a judgment against Roberts and Starke, obtained in 1869, upon which execution issued, and was placed in the hands of the sheriff, Martin, to levy; that a rule had been taken against *87the sheriff for not paying over the money thereon, and the sheriff had answered the rule, and the Court adjudged his answer insufficient, and made the attachment absolute; that the sheriff excepted to the judgment of the Court in the premises, gave bond operating as a supersedeas until the hearing of the case before this Court.
Subsequent to these proceedings, upon…
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