McKey v. County of Fulton
McKey v. County of Fulton
Opinion of the Court
[Mattie L. McKey filed her bill against the commissioners of roads and revenues of Fulton county, alleging that she had purchased a certain lot from one W. H. Clark, who was a security on the official bond of S. E. Hoyle, as tax collector of Fulton county, though this was unknown to her; that the bond was not a statutory bond, because it was not executed and filed within the time prescribed, and, therefore, it could not be enforced by summary statutory execution; and this fact was known to the defendants; that, nevertheless, for a default of the principal, the ordinary issued an execution, which was levied on the lot in dispute, and was bid in by defendant; that she lives in another state; that she forwarded a claim to her attorney, which reached him the day of the sale, but was refused, because sworn to before a Florida official and in that state, and not before an officer duly recognized in Georgia; that being a woman, and unfamiliar with business, she did not know
The injunction was refused, and complainant excepted.]
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