Board of Commissioners v. Scott

— Appellee, who was plaintiff below, filed with the auditor of the county, in the commissioners’ court, a claim in the following words and figures, to wit: “Levi H. Scott, the claimant herein says that said board of commissioners of the county of Floyd *228is indebted to him in the sum of twenty-five hundred and sixteen dollars ($2,516.00) with interest from the 9th day of September, 1892. That said indebtedness is evidenced by county orders issued by said county of Floyd and signed by the auditor thereof; that said claimant cannot set out copies of such orders, or the date and amount of each, or…