Buck v. Vasser
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Warren county. Brown, J. The opinion of the court fully states the facts of the case. Contended, the claim sought to he enforced by plaintiff in error, being for official services rendered the the state in her civil service, is a valid and subsisting debt that the state is bound to pay.
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Error to the circuit court of Warren county. Brown, J. The opinion of the court fully states the facts of the case. Contended, the claim sought to he enforced by plaintiff in error, being for official services rendered the the state in her civil service, is a valid and subsisting debt that the state is bound to pay. The services rendered were in the interest of peace and good order; and the law, by virtue of which they were performed, was not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States. Rev. Code of 1857. All laws of an insurrectionary state, passed during the war, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tarbell, J.:
At the regular state election for this state, held in 1858, B. S. Buck was elected district attorney, for the third judicial district, for the term of four years from the first Monday of January, 1859. He was duly qualified, and entered, at the proper time, upon the duties of the office, which he held to 1862, when he was reelected for another term. His salary was $1,500 per annum, on which there is due him, and for which he holds the warrants of the auditor, as follows: Warrant No. 4198 for $375, dated April 17th, 1862; warrant No. 2207 for $375, dated October 11th, 1862; warrant…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Swann v. BuckMississippi Supreme Court · 1866
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- Day v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1905