Sherrod v. Davis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the Hon. Geo. Goldthwaile.
1Opinion of the Court
DARCAN, C. J,-
Reuben King sued out an original attachment against the estate of William Burks, which was levied by the sheriff on fourteen bales of cotton. Before the trial 'term the cotton was sold by virtue of art order for that purpose, *313but the sheriff did not pay the money over to the clerk of the court, although it was his duty to do so. At the spring term of the Circuit Court in 1S46, a final judgment was rendered in favor of Burks, the defendant in the attachment, who in June thereafter demanded the money of the sheriff, who paid it over to one Leitwich at the request of Burks. In…
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