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  "name": "LENNIE WATSON v. JAMES S. MITCHELL",
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      "LENNIE WATSON v. JAMES S. MITCHELL."
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        "text": "Shepherd, J.:\nThe defendant, the'Sheriff of Hertford County, is sued in Northampton County for a false return of a summons issued by the Superior Court of the latter county and returnable to the same. He contends that the cause of action arose in Hertford County, and that there was error on the part of the Court in declining his motion to remove.\nThe argument is, that as the official acts of a county officer are confined to his county, the \u201c return \u201d must necessarily have been made in Ihe same, and therefore the cause of action could'only arise therein. It is true, asa general proposition, that the acts of county officers are confined to their counties (Steele v. Commissioners, 70 N. C., 137), but this has no application to a case like the present. The Code, \u00a7200, expressly requires a Sheriff to whom a summons is directed to execute the same and return it to the Superior Court of the county from which it is issued. \u201cThe term return, implies that the process is taken back to the place from which it was issued.\u201d Re. Crittenden 2 Flip., 215. \u201cIt is the bringing of a process into Court with such endorsements as the law requires, whether they in fact be true or false.\u201d Herman v. Childress, 3 Yerg., 329.\nAs the statute requires the officer to make his return to the Superior Court of Northampton County, and as the return could not be made elsewhere, it must follow that the cause of action arose in the said county, and that the refusal of his Honor to remove must be affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Mr. R. B. Peebles, for plaintiff.",
      "Mr. B. B. Winborne, for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "LENNIE WATSON v. JAMES S. MITCHELL.\nProcess \u2014 Return\u2014 Officer\u2014 Venue \u2014 Jurisdiction.\n1. An action against a Sheriff of a county other than that from which the process issued, for mating a false return, is properly brought in the Courts of the county to which that process was returnable.\n2. The term ,l return \u201d means that the process must be brought back and produced in the Court whence it issued with such endorsements as the law requires.\nThis is an appeal from the judgment of Womack, J., at September Term, 1890, of Northampton Superior Court, refusing a motion to remove the action for trial to Hertford County.\nMr. R. B. Peebles, for plaintiff.\nMr. B. B. Winborne, for defendant."
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