Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-1-1623
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Actions against state officers
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(a) The district attorney general or state agent may move the circuit court for judgment against the state treasurer, or other state officer, for any neglect, default, misprision, misfeasance, or malfeasance in office, for which such officer and the officer's sureties, or either of them, might be sued upon any bond or other obligation executed for the due and lawful discharge of the duties of the officer's office. (b) The motion shall be in writing, shall be signed by the district attorney general or state agent and shall be in the name of the state. (c) A copy of the motion left at the dwelling house of the defendant, or the defendant's last usual place of residence, or place of abode or place of doing business, five (5) days previous to the motion, shall be sufficient service of notice of the motion. (d) The court shall hear and determine the case without any declaration, or the formality of regular pleadings, according to the right of the case, and give judgment against the officer and the officer's sureties, and award execution as effectually as may be done by regular suit at law. Code 1858, §§ 744-747; integrated in Acts 1907, ch. 602, § 77; Shan., §§ 1053-1056; Acts 1923, ch. 109, § 8; mod. Code 1932, §§ 1786-1789; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 67-1624 -- 67-1627.
(a) The district attorney general or state agent may move the circuit court for judgment against the state treasurer, or other state officer, for any neglect, default, misprision, misfeasance, or malfeasance in office, for which such officer and the officer's sureties, or either of them, might be sued upon any bond or other obligation executed for the due and lawful discharge of the duties of the officer's office.
(b) The motion shall be in writing, shall be signed by the district attorney general or state agent and shall be in the name of the state.
(c) A copy of the motion left at the dwelling house of the defendant, or the defendant's last usual place of residence, or place of abode or place of doing business, five (5) days previous to the motion, shall be sufficient service of notice of the motion.
(d) The court shall hear and determine the case without any declaration, or the formality of regular pleadings, according to the right of the case, and give judgment against the officer and the officer's sureties, and award execution as effectually as may be done by regular suit at law.
Code 1858, §§ 744-747; integrated in Acts 1907, ch. 602, § 77; Shan., §§ 1053-1056; Acts 1923, ch. 109, § 8; mod. Code 1932, §§ 1786-1789; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 67-1624 -- 67-1627.
(a) The district attorney general or state agent may move the circuit court for judgment against the state treasurer, or other state officer, for any neglect, default, misprision, misfeasance, or malfeasance in office, for which such officer and the officer's sureties, or either of them, might be sued upon any bond or other obligation executed for the due and lawful discharge of the duties of the officer's office.
(b) The motion shall be in writing, shall be signed by the district attorney general or state agent and shall be in the name of the state.
(c) A copy of the motion left at the dwelling house of the defendant, or the defendant's last usual place of residence, or place of abode or place of doing business, five (5) days previous to the motion, shall be sufficient service of notice of the motion.
(d) The court shall hear and determine the case without any declaration, or the formality of regular pleadings, according to the right of the case, and give judgment against the officer and the officer's sureties, and award execution as effectually as may be done by regular suit at law.
Code 1858, §§ 744-747; integrated in Acts 1907, ch. 602, § 77; Shan., §§ 1053-1056; Acts 1923, ch. 109, § 8; mod. Code 1932, §§ 1786-1789; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 67-1624 -- 67-1627.
Status: in_force
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