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2018 Georgia Code 15-13-9 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 15-13-9 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-13-9

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 13. Officers of Court Generally, 15-13-1 through 15-13-36.

ARTICLE 1 LIABILITY FOR OFFICIAL ACTS

15-13-9. Deputy sheriff's liability; effect on sheriff.

All deputy sheriffs shall be liable to be ruled and attached in the same way and manner as sheriffs. However, the liability of the sheriff shall not be affected by any such proceeding against his deputy when the same is not effective.

(Laws 1841, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 580; Code 1863, § 3863; Code 1868, § 3883; Code 1873, § 3959; Code 1882, § 3959; Civil Code 1895, § 4780; Civil Code 1910, § 5352; Code 1933, § 24-203.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

After the deputy pays the money collected to the sheriff, the deputy is released. Varner v. Wootten, 38 Ga. 575 (1869).

Sheriff liable for deputy's taxing notes of third persons.

- If deputy taxes notes of third persons and gives receipt in full, the deputy's act is no payment and the sheriff is liable therefor. Reynolds v. Dale, 33 Ga. 585 (1863).

Cited in Jackson v. Luckie, 205 Ga. 100, 52 S.E.2d 588 (1949).

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