Miller v. Edwards

Mississippi Supreme Court
Miller v. Edwards, 75 Miss. 739 (Miss. 1898)
Whitfield

Miller v. Edwards

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, J.,

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 *741the plaintiff might, on the return of the case, still apply for a writ to the sheriff, to be by him executed as in Barnett v. Ring. The court also expressly held that the dismissal of the attachment proceedings was proper. If, in Bates v. Crow, there had been no reversal because of the error of the court below in dismissing the suit on the merits, the judgment there clearly would have been affirmed. Here the agreement of counsel expressly cuts us off from considering the action of the court below in dismissing the suit on the merits, if his action was otherwise correct. It was otherwise clearly right, and hence the judgment is

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Daniel Miller & Co. v. R. L. Edwards
Status
Published
Syllabus
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.