Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Mitchell

Yan Geisen, a justice of the peace, was removed from office. W. B. Mitchell qualified as his successor, and Mitchell found several judgments entered by Yan Geisen on the official docket in favor of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company against divers defendants, upon which no executions had been issued. Executions were issued on these judgments by Mitchell, and after entries of nulla bona as to the respective defendants, and refusal by the telephone company to pay the costs, *540executions were issued against it for the amount of the court costs. These executions were levied on…