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Compiler's Notes: This section as originally enacted was numbered section 80.

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