Section 51.79 - Survival of action against sheriff or deputies.
Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
OF SHERIFFS.
51.79 Survival of action against sheriff or deputies.
Sec. 79.
Any action for the malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance of a sheriff or any of his deputies, may be prosecuted against the executors or administrators of such sheriff, in like manner as if the cause of action survived at common law.
History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 14 ;-- CL 1857, 420 ;-- CL 1871, 561 ;-- How. 589 ;-- CL 1897, 2588 ;-- CL 1915, 2450 ;-- CL 1929, 1332 ;-- CL 1948, 51.79
Compiler's Notes: This section as originally enacted was numbered section 80.