Court Opinion

ID: 7990011
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 01:29:57.143063+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:35:19.909678
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Oalhoon, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee was the surety on the appeal bond from the court of a justice- of the peace of a man who was in that court convicted of a misdemeanor. In the- circuit court his appeal was-dismissed, and there was a judgment of procedendo to the justice of the peace, and a judgment of damages against defendant and the sureties on his appeal bond for costs only, and a'Ward of execution for these costs. There were two sureties on the appeal bond, ■ but the judgment does not name either. An execution was issued from the office of the circuit clerk for *267these costs against appellee alone. This execution was issued and the costs taxed by the appellant, J. M. Griffin, who was at that time deputy circuit clerk. These costs amounted only to-$10.70. No writ of execution appears in the record, but the sheriff’s deed does recite that there was an execution. This writ of execution, or whatever it was, according to the sheriff’s deed, was levied on the land in controversy, and it was sold and bought by this deputy circuit clerk, Griffin. At that time Hickman, the appellee, was a citizen and resident of Yalobusha county; the judgment and execution having been issued from the circuit court of Chickasaw county, and the levy made there. The purchase price of the land was an insignificant sum, and the appellee filed his bill to annul and vacate Griffin’s title, and the chancery court annulled it, and decreed an accounting for the timber cut by Griffin.
Several points are raised in support of the chancellor’s decree : Hirst, that there was no valid judgment, because the record produced does not show where the court was organized or where the judgment was found, and does not name the parties to it; second, that the judgment under which the land was sold was void, because it does not give the names of the sureties. Another point is that the land was bought by Griffin, who was-the' deputy clerk who taxed the cost and issued the writ, and the writ cannot be found, and its absence cannot be supplied by recitals in the sheriff’s deed. We prefer to rest our judgment on a fourth point, without considering the others. This-sale, as we think, was void because Code 1892, § 896, which is the same as Code 1906, § 973, requires that writs of execution, in cases where the judgment is for costs only, shall be directed to the sheriff of the county where the party from whom the-money is sought to be made resides. In the case before us Hickman, the appellee, was á resident of Yalobusha county, and not a resident of Ohicksaw county, where the judgment for costs was rendered.

Affirmed.