Case ID: ind_45/html/0267-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pettit, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State, ex rel. Arnold, v. Givan, Administrator, et al.
    County Clerk.—Sheriff's Fees.—Official Bond.—Decedents' Estates.—The sureties on the official bond of a county clerk are not liable for sheriff’s fees collected by the clerk, and not paid over to the sheriff; but the administrator of the clerk’s estate is liable therefor, not in a suit on the clerk’s official bond, but where a claim therefor is duly filed against such estate.
    From the Dearborn Circuit Court.
    
      F. Adkinson, for appellant.
    
      y. Schwartz, for appellees.
   Pettit, J.

This was a suit by the appellant, on the official bond of a former clerk of the circuit court, against Givan, his administrator, and the sureties on the clerk’s bond, to recover fees due to the relator as sheriff) which the clerk had collected and refused to pay over to the sheriff A separate demurrer, for want of sufficient facts, sustained to the complaint, exception taken, and this ruling is assigned for error.

There is no law making it the duty or authorizing the clerk to receive or receipt for the sheriff’s fees; and therefore his bondsmen are not liable for fees thus received by him. Jenkins v. Lemonds, 29 Ind. 294; Carey v. The State, ex rel. Farley, 34 Ind. 105. But the administrator is liable, not on the bond, but by filing a claim. Hyatt v. Mavity, 34 Ind. 415.

The judgment is affirmed, at the costs of the relator.