Smith v. Outlaw

Crawford, Justice.

The defendant in error, as the sheriff of Johnson county, filed his petition to the ordinary of said county setting forth that as such officer he had collected and paid over to the county treasurer in money and county orders at various times, and in different amounts, $969.48, and that out of the said sum so paid over there was due to him, as sheriff, $90.08, which the said county treasurer refused to pay; the said ordinary thereupon issued a rule nisi calling upon the said treasurer to appear and show cause why an order should not be granted requiring him to settle and pay…