Section 11-1-2
County declared a body corporate.
Every county is a body corporate, with power to sue or be sued in any court of record.
(Code 1852, §763; Code 1867, §897; Code 1876, §815; Code 1886, §886; Code 1896, §1397; Code 1907, §123; Code 1923, §181; Code 1940, T. 12, §3.)