Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0243-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth of Kentucky for the Use of John S. Parrish’s Administrator v. P. C. Bedford.
    Sheriffs and Constables — Collection of Money Without Execution — Default — Sureties Not Responsible.
    A sheriff has no right to collect money upon a judgment by virtue of his office, and when he does so without first having an execution his sureties on his official bond are not responsible in case he fails to pay over the money to the plaintiff.
    APPEAL FROM MONTGOMERY CIRCUIT COURT.
    October 11, 1871.
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

The debt in this case was not’ paid to the sheriff Bedford until the date of the receipt in October, 1864. No execution was then in the hands of the sheriff, as the proof of 'the clerk shows that none was issued after 1863. This execution had been returned by the sheriff and destroyed by fire with other records in the clerk’s office long before the payment' is alleged to have been made. There is no' proof of any levy by the sheriff in 1863, or at any other time, on the property of the defendant in the execution, and as the sheriff had no right to collect the money upon a judgment by virtue of his office, his sureties are not responsible. The variance between the allegations of the petition and the proof as to the parties defendant in the execution is not such an error as would authorize a reversal of the judgment rendered against Bedford. The judgment is affirmed on the original and cross-appeal.

Reid, for appellant.

Apperson, for appelee.