Board of Commissioners v. Saunders

This was a suit by the appellant against the appellee, who was formerly treasurer of said county. The complaint has five paragraphs, similar in every respect, except that each is for a failure to discharge his duty for a year therein named, in this, that it is averred he collected between the third Monday of March and the first Monday of August, of the named year, from persons and property charged with taxes, and unpaid on the said first named day, taxes due to said county to the amount of, &c.; upon which there was chargeable by law ten per cent., as damages, and which he as treasurer was…