Actions against sheriffs, coroners, and other officials
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Geraldine Henson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Henson v. Kelley Cradduck (2020)
Most recently applied in Geraldine Henson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Henson v. Kelley Cradduck (January 2020)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) All actions against sheriffs and coroners upon any liability incurred by them by doing any act in their official capacity or by the omission of any official duty, except for escapes, shall be brought within two (2) years after the cause of action has accrued and not thereafter.
(2) All actions against sheriffs or other officers for the escape of any person imprisoned on civil process shall be commenced within one (1) year from the time of escape, and not thereafter.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.