Ketler v. Thompson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 7 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM M’CRACKEN COMMON PLEAS COURT. The bond executed January 15,1873, was under the Revised Statutes, and for the full term of two years; and there being no order of the county court requiring Grundy to renew his official bond, and no notice or motion on the part of his sureties for counter security, the second .bond, dated January 26, 1874, was without warrant of law and void, there being no consideration or legal requirement for its…
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Case 7 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM M’CRACKEN COMMON PLEAS COURT. The bond executed January 15,1873, was under the Revised Statutes, and for the full term of two years; and there being no order of the county court requiring Grundy to renew his official bond, and no notice or motion on the part of his sureties for counter security, the second .bond, dated January 26, 1874, was without warrant of law and void, there being no consideration or legal requirement for its execution. The sureties in the second bond, if liable, are only bound for defalcations of the sheriff on process which came to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lindsay
Grundy was qualified as sheriff of McCracken County in January, 1873, and Thompson and others became sureties on his official bond. In January, 1874, he appeared in the McCracken County Court, and gave an additional or renewal bond, with' the appellants, Ketler and Billingsly, and others as his sureties. This bond was executed pursuant to section 25, chapter 100, of the General Statutes, which provides *289that “It shall be the duty of the county court to cause the sheriff annually to renew his bond required by this chapter, and oftener if the court may deem proper;” and it is no objection to its…
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