18 Ga. 38 | Ga. | 1855
delivering the opinion.
It is said Courts make precedents. We disclaim all srich pretension. It is .nevertheless true, that all precedents had a beginning; and if none can be found for this case, it is because, under our peculiar Statutes regulating the relation of principal and surety, and the rights of the latter, resulting from that relationship, after as well as before judgment, the case, itself, is one sui generis.
Whether the Act of 1799 authorized a suit against the sureties on a Sheriff’s bond, for any default or misconduct in his office, anterior to a recovery against the principal, I will