Miller v. Edwards
Miller v. Edwards
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Section 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
Affirmed.
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- Daniel Miller & Co. v. R. L. Edwards
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- Justices of the Peace. Attachment to another county. Deputation to execute. Private person. Code 1892, $ 2403. A justice of the peace is without power to specially deputize a private person to execute a writ of attachment in another county, § 2403, code 1892, not conferring such authority, even in case of emergency. Barnett v. Ring, 55 Miss., 97; and Bates v. Crow, 57 lb., 676, distinguished.