Johnson v. Hudson

John T. Allen, Sp. J.

This is an agreed case, by which the parties, in accordance with §§ 4187, 4188 of M. & Y. Code, submitted the facts upon which the controversy depends, to the Chancery Court of Benton County, in which county the defendant resides. The defendant is Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of said county, and has been such for three years. The complainant is the attorney appointed by James A. Harris, Comptroller of the State, under Ch. 137 of the Acts of 1895, the object being to clothe said attorney with the powers heretofore vested in the Judge or Chairman of the County…