Jefferson v. Hartley
Supreme Court of Georgia
Officers. Sheriffs. Torts. Principal and surety. Actions. Before Judge Gustin. Crawford superior court April term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This was an action upon the sheriff’s bond, brought by a woman who alleged that the sheriff, when executing a writ of possession against her husband, expelled her from certain land, she having title to the same, and not having been a party to the ejectment cause against her husband, out of which the writ issued. The declaration was demurred to, upon the ground that an action upon the bond would not lie in the first instance; that the sheriff had to be first sued and a recovery had against him. The demurrer was sustained and the action dismissed.
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