State ex rel. Holmes County v. Swinney

Citations

• 60 Miss. 39

Syllabus

<p>1. Bond. Tax collector. Default. Release of sureties. Act extending time of collection.</p> <p>An act of the Legislature extending the time for the collection of taxes and for settlement therefor by the collector, though passed after the execution of the bond, and without the consent of the sureties, does not release the sureties on the collector’s bond from liability for his failure to collect and pay over the taxes as required by law; but the sureties must he held, in such case to have signed the bond with full knowledge of the right of the Legislature to enact such a statute, and subject to the exercise of that right at pleasure.</p> <p>2. Pleadins. Matters objectionable by special, demurrer Code 1880, sect. 1567.</p> <p>Under sect. 1567 of the Code of 1880 no pleading is insufficient for any defect, which, prior to the time that Code went into operation, could have been objected to only by special demurrer.</p>