Jones v. Buckelew

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit against a deputy sheriff and his official bond for negligently inflicting personal injuries on plaintiff by negligently causing or allowing an automobile of which he was in charge to run against plaintiff, at a time when he was “acting within the line and scope of his authority and under color of his office as such deputy sheriff.”

This is a count in tort against both the deputy and the surety on his official bond in line with our cases. Shell v. Pittman, 229 Ala. 380, 157 So. 205 (limiting Union Indemnity Co. v. Webster, 218 Ala. 468, 118 So. 794); Hill v. Hyde,…