County Court v. Hall

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The county court of Barbour County instituted this action of assumpsit against James E. Hall to recover the costs made by it in a condemnation proceeding lately pending in the circuit court of said county in which said county court sought to take certain real estate of the defendant for the purpose of constructing thereon a public highway. After costs, amounting to four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-eight cents, had been made, the defendant, as a result of a parley or conference between him and .the members of the county court, made the following proposition:

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