Cook v. Hays

The County court of Gilmer, at its June term 1847, laid a county levy of 2 dollars 50 cents on each of five hundred and seventeen titheables, and directed the plaintiff in error, Cook, who was sheriff, to collect that levy and pay the creditors *143of the county, of whom the defendant in error was one. His debt amounted to 440 dollars. On the 9th of February 1848, the defendant in error, proceeding under the statute, Supplement Rev. Code, p. 194, § -3, caused a notice to be served on the plaintiffs in error, informing them that at the next Circuit Superior court of law and chancery for Gilmer…