Court Opinion

ID: 5581306
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 01:40:04.293715+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:05.825353
License: Public Domain

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.