Heidenheimer Bros. v. Brent
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before John Q. Bice, Esq., special judge. On the 3d of February, 1874, this suit was instituted against J. H. Brent, former sheriff of Navarro county, and against appellees, sureties on his official bond.
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Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before John Q. Bice, Esq., special judge. On the 3d of February, 1874, this suit was instituted against J. H. Brent, former sheriff of Navarro county, and against appellees, sureties on his official bond. The object of this suit was to recover of Brent and his sureties judgment for $650. The facts on which plaintiffs relied for their recovery were stated substantially as follows in the petition: On the 12th day of August, 1872, Brent was appointed sheriff of Navarro county, gave bond with appéllees his sureties, and entered upon the discharge of the duties of…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
The suit was dismissed as to the sheriff, and prosecuted against his sureties alone. The special exceptions of appellees filed, both to the original and amended pleadings of appellants, point to the fact thj„t these pleadings fail to show that the money sought to be recovered of them, as sureties of the sheriff, ever came into his hands by virtue of any process or precept lawfully directed to him. They object to the pleadings of the appellants, because they do not show that the money sought to be recovered was ever received by their principal in his official capacity,…
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