Legal Opinion

Broughton v. President of the Bank

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1837PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Error from Dallas Circuit court. This action was commenced by notice, as follows j State of Alabama, Dallas County — ss.

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Error from Dallas Circuit court. This action was commenced by notice, as follows j State of Alabama, Dallas County — ss. To Jesse C. Farrar, formerly sheriff of Monroe county, in said State, and to Leonard Scott, Abel Farrar, Joseph Nettles, senior, Nathaniel Broughton, Daniel D. Shumate, James Wade, and Daniel McIntosh, the securities of the said J. C. Farrar, for the due performance of his official duties of sheriff — Take notice- — - “A judgment was rendered in and by the Circuit court oil Dallas county, at the April term, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, of the said court, for…

1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.

On the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the defendants in error, by their attorney, issued two notices of like tenor — the one directed to the sheriff of Monroe, and the other to the sheriff of Dallas ; in each of which it *61is stated, that Jesse C. Farrar, late sheriff of Monroe, had on a fieri facias, (particularly recited,) directed to and received by him from the Circuit court of Dallas, against the goods, &c. of James Knight, and others, collected the amount required to be made by its mandate. In the notices it is alleged, that Farrar “ had failed to pay over…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Higdon v. FieldsAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
  2. Price v. CloudSupreme Court of Alabama · 1844
  3. Ex parte North-east & South-west Ala. RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1861
  4. Crawford v. Planters' & Merchants' BankSupreme Court of Alabama · 1842
  5. Wallace v. TaylorSupreme Court of Alabama · 1845

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