State Ex Rel. Dew v. Lightcap

This is an action by the State, for the use of D. Herbert Dew, hereinafter referred to as the appellant, against Thomas M. Lightcap, a former sheriff of Yazoo county, and the National Surety Corporation, the surety on his official bond. The appellant sued for injuries inflicted on Dew during Lightcap’s term of office by Griffin Pigg, a regularly appointed deputy of Lightcap’s. Lightcap 'is a resident of Yazoo county, serving as a regularly appointed deputy sheriff of that county. He requested the court, but it declined, to change the venue to Yazoo county under section 495, Code of 1930. It…