Case ID: ga_48/html/0411-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Warner, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rufus B. Bullock, Governor, for use, etc., plaintiff in error, vs. James King et al., defendants in error.
    (Atlanta,
    January Term, 1873.)
    Sheriff’s Bond — Death of One Surety and Sheriff — Effect.—Where, pending an action on a sheriff’s bond, the sheriff and one of the securities die, the plaintiff may proceed against the surviving securities. (R.)
    Sheriff’s bond. Before Judge PIarvey. Floyd Superior Court. July Adjourned Term, 1872.
    For the facts of this case, see the decision.
    *W. D. Eram, by T. W. ArexandeR, for plaintiff in error.
    Underwood & RowERR, for defendants.
   Warner, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff brought her action on a sheriff’s bond against the sheriff and his securities. Pending the action the sheriff and one of.the securities died. Before the case was submitted to the jury the death of the parties was suggested. The plaintiff’s counsel then announced that he would proceed against the other parties on the bond alone. The defendants’ counsel then demurred to the plaintiff’s declaration, on the ground that the securities on the sheriff’s bond were not liable according to the case made by the pleadings. The Court sustained the demurrer, and ordered the case dismissed as to the securities on the sheriff’s bond. Whereupon, the plaintiff excepted.. In our' judgment, the Court erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s action, in view of the provisions of the 3396th section of the Code.

Let the judgment óf the Court below be reversed.