Pharr v. Hale

9 Ala. 312

• Court: Supreme Court of Alabama
• Decided: January 15, 1846
• Status: Published

Opinion

ORMOND, J.

The decision of this court, in Gary v. Boykin, 7 Ala. R. 154, that the summary remedy by motion against the sheriff, did not apply to the officers of court seeking to collect their costs, and that where, as in that case, the debt had been paid by the sheriff to the plaintiff, the officers of the court could not, in the name of the plaintiff, move against the sheriff for their costs, does not apply here.

This is an ordinary judgment, in which the plaintiffs recovered the costs expended by them in prosecuting a suit, upon which an execution issued, which the sheriff has failed to collect. In Gary v. Boykin, it appeared by the pleadings, that the motion was made in behalf of -the officers of the court, and that the name of the plaintiff was used by them to collect their fees. There is nothing in this record, from which it can be inferred, that such is the fact here. On the contrary, from the amount to be collected on the execution, the just inference is, that it is the act of the plaintiff himself. To bring the case within the decision previously referred to, it should appear on the record, that the motion was not made by the plaintiff. Let the judgment be reversed and the cause remanded.