Lane v. Commissioners of Missoula County

This was an agreed case under the statute (E. S. § 455, div. 1), and was tried and decided under the following statement of facts: The appellant, from the 28th day of February, 1885, to the 1st day of September, 1886, was sheriff of Missoula county, and during that time furnished two thousand three hundred and thirty-eight days’ board to the county prisoners confined in the jail of said county. The county commissioners allowed the appellant only the sum of $1,551.15 for such board, which was at the rate of sixty cents per day for each prisoner when five or more prisoners were in jail at the…