Keen v. Rouse
Supreme Court of Georgia
Tax. Costs. Sheriffs. Before J udge Strozier. Worth Superior Court. May Term, 1871. Keen, as sheriff, claimed that Worth county owed him costs for levying certain county tax fi. fas. and advertising sales thereunder. He admitted that the property was not sold because the fi. fas. were illegally issued, and yet he asked that the Ordinary be compelled to direct the treasurer to pay his costs. Court refused to grant the maildamus. This refusal is assigned as error.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
This was an application for a mandamus to compel the Ordinary to give the plaintiff an order on the county treasurer for fees which he claimed was due him, as sheriff, for levying certain fi. fas. on land in the county of Worth, which fi. fas. were issued by order of the Inferior Court, before that Court was abolished. The plaintiff also sought to embrace in the order about $60 00, expended by him in advertising the lands for sale. The sale was stopped and the levies ordered to be dismissed by the Comptroller General, as the order of the Inferior Court was illegal. It is…
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