Jones v. Rountree

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. Section 355 of the code distinctly authorizes the appointment of deputy-sheriffs, and requires these officers to give bond with sureties. It is difficult to conceive why deputy-sheriff's should be appointed at all, if they, are not at least competent to perform such duties pertaining to the sheriff’s office as serving papers and making entries of such service. It is true that in 1892 the General Assembly passed two acts amending, re-' spectively, sections 3971 and 3972 of the code, so as to provide in terms that executions issued upon the foreclosure of chattel mortgages…