
    Partin, sheriff, v. Smith, ordinary.
    October 19, 1916.
    Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Hardeman. Toombs superior court. February 5, 1916.
    
      I. H. Gorbitt and J. J. Williams, for plaintiff.
    
      Giles & Sharpe, for defendant.
   Gilbert, J.

All sureties, other than guarantee and surety companies, on a sheriff’s bond “must be permanent residents of the State, and two also of the county, and freeholders thereof.” Civil Code' (1910), § 281. A petition for mandamus to require the ordinary to approve the bond of a sheriff, whieh does not allege these requirements, is fatally defective; and where the court tried the case on such petition and the answer, without evidence, a rule absolute could not lawfully be ordered. The court did not err in refusing a mandamus absolute.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.  