Wynne v. Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad

Citations

• 45 Miss. 569

Syllabus

<p>Sheriffs’ commissions on monet made under process—not entitled unless he mames the monet. — A sheriff is entitled to the commissions provided by Bev. Code of 1857, p. 115, “ on all money made by virtue of any decree, execution, attachment or other process,” only when he collects the money, and therefore, when the defendant, after a levy by the sheriff of an execution on property ample to satisfy it, and advertisement of a sale, paid the judgment directly to the plaintiff, the sheriff was not entitled to commissions.</p>