Reid v. Planters' & Merchants' Bank of Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. IN the record we find a notice in which is described a writ of fieri fiadas, at the suit of the defendant in error, against James Walsh and William C. Baldwin, issued on a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Mobile.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. IN the record we find a notice in which is described a writ of fieri fiadas, at the suit of the defendant in error, against James Walsh and William C. Baldwin, issued on a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Mobile. This execution it is alleged, issued on the 10th June, 1840, for fifteen hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-five cents, with interest to be collected thereon, from the 5th of May, preceding its issuance; and also the further sum of eight dollars and twenty-five cents, adjudged and taxed as costs of suit; and was made returnable…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLIER, C. J
It is insisted that the judgment of the Circuit Court is erroneous,
*7141-. Because no notice of the motion was given to the sureties of the sheriff.
2. Because the jury did not find by their verdict, who were the sureties; nor does the record show, that any proof on this point, was adduced to the Court.
1. In Broughton, et al. v. The State Bank. 6 Porter’s Rep. 48, this Court considered it a settled question, that in a motion against a sheriff and his sureties for failing to pay over money collected upon an execution, notice to the former was sufficient to authorise a judgment not only…
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