Seay v. Cleveland

Eldridge, Judge.

Defendant John Seay, Sheriff of Cherokee County, appeals the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict to plaintiffs Arthur J. Cleveland and Annie Cleveland, and the court’s denial of his own motion for a directed verdict. We affirm.

On October 1,1991, the Clevelands successfully bid at a Sheriff’s sale to purchase a home in Woodstock, Cherokee County, for $58,000. The sale was conducted by Shelley Laughhunn, Deputy Sheriff of Cherokee County, pursuant to a judgment and fieri facias. Following the sale, an administrative clerk in the Sheriff’s office deducted the county’s costs…