Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Fitzgerald

W. H. Fitzgerald, Jr., formerly sheriff of Coahoma county, instituted suit against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company to recover the statutory ten per cent, commission for the collection of delinquent taxes upon the assessment for the year 1913. From a judgment awarding the plaintiff one thousand eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents on account of delinquent taxes paid by the defendant in October, 1914, and denying the plaintiff the right to recover four thousand seven hundred eight dollars and seventeen cents and interest on account of delinquent taxes paid in May, 1914, the…