Sunflower Compress Co. v. Clark

This is a suit by the 'Sunflower Compress Company to recover from the sheriff and tax collector of Sunflower county, Clark, and the surety on his bond, the amount of a check which the sheriff failed to present to the bank before it closed for business, thereby causing loss to the compress company. This is the second appearance of this case here, having been here on the pleadings in the case of Sunflower Compress Company v. Clark, 165 Miss. 219, 144 So. 477, 145 So. 617, wherein we held that the declaration in the case was good against demurrer.

After the reversal of the case, the lower court…