Shaw v. County Court

Snyder, Judge:

Action oi assumpsit, commenced January 28," 1880, in the Circuit Court of Upshur county, by Thomas Shaw, against Upshur county, and in which the County Court of said county was substituted as defendant for said county. The plaintiff claims that he was one of 153 volunteers accredited to the county of Upshur under several calls of the President for troops to serve in the United States army during the late civil war; and that by virtue of an order of the board of supervisors of said county, made March 26,1864, appropriating *$15,000.00 to pay bounties to the volunteers so…