Dillon v. Whatcom County

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

Respondent brought this action against appellant, the county of Whatcom, to recover the sum *392of $300 alleged to have.been paid out by him for clerk hire and salary of deputy in his office as county-auditor for the month of April, 1895. He alleges in his complaint that he was compelled to retain in his office three clerks, Dillon, Bateman and Ouster, and the deputy, Brand, in order to dispatch the duties of his said office during said month; that the county commissioners of defendant county had attempted to discharge all the clerks in his…