Case ID: ga_146/html/0035-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Partin, sheriff, v. Smith, ordinary.
    October 19, 1916.
    Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Hardeman. Toombs superior court. February 5, 1916.
    
      I. H. Gorbitt and J. J. Williams, for plaintiff.
    
      Giles & Sharpe, for defendant.
   Gilbert, J.

All sureties, other than guarantee and surety companies, on a sheriff’s bond “must be permanent residents of the State, and two also of the county, and freeholders thereof.” Civil Code' (1910), § 281. A petition for mandamus to require the ordinary to approve the bond of a sheriff, whieh does not allege these requirements, is fatally defective; and where the court tried the case on such petition and the answer, without evidence, a rule absolute could not lawfully be ordered. The court did not err in refusing a mandamus absolute.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.