Lamb v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff, a former register of deeds, sued Butler county for $4,172, one-half of the excéss amount collected and paid over to the county treasurer during her incum*740bency. The action was brought under chapter 193 of the Session Laws of 1917,- and is a companion case to Voris v. Cowley County, 103 Kan. 876, 176 Pac. 976.

The answer alleged that the plaintiff had not filed any claim for clerk hire actually expended or contracted by her which was not allowed and paid by the defendant and that she had not given the defendant the opportunity of…