19-25-25 - Remedy of sheriff against defaulting deputy. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 19-25-25. Remedy of sheriff against defaulting deputy.
 

The sheriff shall have the same remedy and judgment against his deputies and their sureties, for failing to pay money received on executions or other process to the sheriff, or to the party to whom the same is payable, or for any other act or default in office, as the creditor at whose suit such writ issued may have against the sheriff. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 28, art 3 (8); 1857, ch. 6, art 116; 1871, § 222; 1880, § 327; 1892, § 4113; 1906, § 4665; Hemingway's 1917, § 3082; 1930, § 3312, 1942, § 4237.