116 Ala. 551 | Ala. | 1897
Lead Opinion
1. This is a summary proceeding by notice and motion, under the statute, (Code of 1886, § 3Í01; Code of 1896, §3769), to recover the penalty imposed on a sheriff for a failure to return an execution ; and the primary question is, the sheriff having died, whether the proceeding may be maintained against the sureties on his official bond, or such of them as may be served with notice. All summary proceedings must bé taken and pursued in strict conformity to the statutes
2. The statute, (Code of 1886, § 2885 ; Code of 1896, § 1883), requires that “at the foot, or on some part of the execution, the clerk must state, in intelligible words and figures, the several items composing the bill of costs ; and without such copy of the bill of costs, the execution is illegal, and shall not be levied.” The execution the sheriff is charged with a failure to return had at its foot, or indorsed upon it, a bill of the costs. The fees of the clerk and the sheriff were enumerated and printed, and it is hot claimed the services for which they are charged were not rendered, nor that the fees were in excess of the fees allowed by law. The aggregate of the fees of witnesses is stated, without the names of the witnesses.
We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.
Rehearing
On Application For Rehearing.
Upon an application for rehearing,
■ after a closer scrutiny of the original execution, which has been transmitted to this court, my brothers are of the opinion, that it is illegal, and under the influence of section 2885 of the.Code of 1886, (Code of 1896, § 1883), void, and I will not now dissent from tliat conclusion. Assuming this to be true, I cannot, for the reasons already stated, concur in the conclusion that this illegality relieved the sheriff from the duty of returning it according to its mandate. In obedience to the opinions of my brothers, the rehearing is granted, the judgment of affirmance is set aside, and. a judgment will be here rendered, dismissing the motion at the costs of the
Reversed and rendered.