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75 Miss. 739

Miller v. Edwards

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1898

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1898-03-15

Feom the circuit court of Noxubee county. Hon. G. B. Huddleston, Judge. A writ of attachment was issued, at the suit of the appellants, by a justice of the peace of Noxubee county, directed to the sheriff or any constable of Kemper county. It was executed by one O’Brien, a private person, in Kemper county, under a special appointment as deputy constable, fnade by the magistrate who issued the writ. On motion of defendant, the writ was quashed and the proceeding dismissed.

Decided 1898-03-15

Whitfield, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Section 2403, code of 1892, does not authorize a justice of the peace to specially appoint -a private person, in a case of emergency, to execute process outside the county in which he is such justice of the peace. In Barnett v. Ring, 55 Miss., 97, the alias writ was received and executed by the sheriff, and the property dealt with by him thereunder. Here the sheriff had no writ at all, and dealt with the property solely under the void levy of the specially deputized private person. In Bates v. Crow, 57 Miss., 676, the court reversed the case because the suit, on the merits, was erroneously dismissed, as well as the attachment proceedings. And so reversing, the court said that *741the plaintiff might, on the return of the case, still apply for a writ to the sheriff, to be by him executed as in Barnett v. Ring. The court also expressly held that the dismissal of the attachment proceedings was proper. If, in Bates v. Crow, there had been no reversal because of the error of the court below in dismissing the suit on the merits, the judgment there clearly would have been affirmed. Here the agreement of counsel expressly cuts us off from considering the action of the court below in dismissing the suit on the merits, if his action was otherwise correct. It was otherwise clearly right, and hence the judgment is

¶3Affirmed.

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