Moore v. Magee & Ware

Citations

• 48 Miss. 567

Syllabus

<p>1. Printers’ fees for legal advertising. — Tbe person who, as sheriff and tax collector, advertises tbe sales of delinquent lands for taxes, is individually liable to action for tbe legal fees of tbe printer for such advertisements, if- such person remain in office long enough to sell the lands so advertised, or, in default of sales, to strike them off to the state, as required by law. And if such person go out of office after ordering the advertisements and before the day of sale, and be succeeded by another, the action lies against the latter.</p> <p>2. Same. — The officer making such sales is, under the statute, a trustee to colleot the money C( and costs for the persons entitled thereto.”</p>