Holyfield v. State, to Use of Adams

Appellee, Rosa Adams, as administratrix of the estate of Eddie Adams, deceased, seeks, as complainant in this bill, to recover of defendants, Holyfield and the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, a nonresident corporation, surety on Holyfield’s bond, as sheriff of Rankin County, Mississippi, damages for the death of Eddie Adams caused, it is alleged, by a wrongful and tortious act of said Holyfield committed as such sheriff in Rankin County.

The bill was filed in Pike County and joined as garnishee-defendants certain residents of that county, who were engaged in the insurance business…