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Jones v. Henderson

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1850

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1850-09-15

On the 9th of January, 1844, Attorney General D. H. Cummings, moved in the circuit court of Monroe county for a judgment against “Martin Henderson, Sheriff of Monroe, and Street Lane, R. R. Cloudis and J. J. Hum-phreys, his securities,” for the State revenue collected by the defendant as Sheriff for the year 1842. In this motion the name of William Burris, one of the defendant’s securities, was not recited.

Decided 1850-09-15

McKinney, Judge,

¶1delivered an oral opinion in which it was held, that judgment was properly rendered in the first instance against the Sheriff and his securities ; that the omission of the name of Burris in the motion, which was probably an act of inadvertahce on the part1 of the clerk, would not exonerate them.

¶2The judgment of the circuit judge was therefore reversed, and procedendo awarded.

¶3 See Chairman County Court &c., v. Sawyers v. Sureties, Infra. next case.

¶4These statutes being in derogation of the common law are to he construed strictly, and the words of the statute “officer and his sureties” mean all his sureties, and motion will not lie against part of them. Rice v. Kirkmen, 3 Humph 416-418; Hoston v. Dougherty, 4 Humph, 505-6.

¶5See the Code, 3583 et seq.

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