State Ex Rel. Jackson County v. Stafford

The complainant filed its original bill in the Chancery Court at Gainesboro, in which 'it. prayed for a decree to sell certain interests in land which the defendant is alleged to have inherited from his father, and to apply the proceeds to the satisfaction of a bond which was executed by himself and sureties to secure the payment of a fine and costs due the county. The bill alleges “that on or about June 3, 1941, his sureties gave him up on said workhouse bond, which bond is of record in Book 12, page 86, in the Office of the Chairman of the County Court of Jackson County, Tennessee,” etc.…