89-7-87 - Irregularities not to affect distress.
§ 89-7-87. Irregularities not to affect distress.
When any distress or seizure shall be made for rent or supplies justly due, and any irregularity or unlawful act shall afterwards be done by the officer distraining or seizing, the distress or seizure shall not, for that reason, be unlawful, nor the officer making or seizing it, or the party at whose instance the writ was issued, become a trespasser from the beginning, but the party aggrieved by such irregularity or unlawful act, may recover the special damage he may have sustained thereby. However, an action shall not be sustained if tender of amends be made by the party distraining before suit is brought.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 1310; 1892, § 2516; 1906, § 2854; Hemingway's 1917, § 2352; 1930, § 2204; 1942, § 926.