Harding v. County of Montgomery
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Montgomery Gi/rcuit Gowt. The plaintiff, as sheriff of Montgomery county, conveyed certain convicts from Eed Oalc, tbe county seat of said county, to the penitentiary at Eort Madison. He also conveyed a minor to the reform school at Eldora, and certain insane persons to the hospital for the insane at Mount Pleasant. He also attended with a prisoner certain proceedings in habeas corpus.
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Appeal from Montgomery Gi/rcuit Gowt. The plaintiff, as sheriff of Montgomery county, conveyed certain convicts from Eed Oalc, tbe county seat of said county, to the penitentiary at Eort Madison. He also conveyed a minor to the reform school at Eldora, and certain insane persons to the hospital for the insane at Mount Pleasant. He also attended with a prisoner certain proceedings in habeas corpus. A difference having arisen between the parties as to the plaintiff’s compeiisation, an agreed statement of facts was prepared and submitted to the Circuit Court. Some of the claims made by the…
1Opinion of the CourtEothkook, J.
I. sheriff: oi^aiioTOnce o£ claim. — I. Prior to June 1st, 1879, the plaintiff conveyed eight convicts to the penitentiary, the distance being two hundred and sixty-one miles. At the re-j sPeotive meetings of the board of supervisors prior to 1880, the plaintiff presented to said board duly verified bills in which he charged sixteen cents per mile for the said two hundred and sixty-one miles, for each of said convicts, which said charges were allowed and p>aid.
At the January term, 1880, of said board, the plaintiff presented a bill for conveying the same persons in which he charged the…
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