Beck v. Puckett

In the view we have taken of this case, it is unnecessary to consider some of the grave questions which have, been pressed in argument. 'A single one must he decisive of the rights of the parties. The controversy grows out of a calamity which befell the county of Hamilton, on the 30th *492of September, 18Y6, -when the register’s office of that county was partially destroyed by lire, and the books of said offi.ce so charred and injured by the fire and also by the water used in its extinguishment, as to make it necessary to have some of them rebound, and others transcribed, as indispensable to…