19-815. Sheriffs, undersheriffs and deputies may execute and return all such writs and processes as shall be in their hands at the expiration of their office, or at the time of their removal from office, which they shall have begun to execute by service, levy or collection of money thereon.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, ยง 109; October 31; R.S. 1923, 19-815.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Proceedings to amerce a sheriff are on a written motion; to amerce sheriff after term expires negligence is essential. Armstrong v. Grant, 7 Kan. 285, 296.
2. Outgoing sheriff may allow successor to execute writ. Croner v. Keefer, 103 Kan. 204, 207, 173 P. 282.