Rusk County v. Maloney

We are called upon to chiefly determine the point, broadly stated, of whether or not the county was entitled to have recovery for the amount of excess or delinquent tax fees in suit. Upon the evidence, the trial court made the affirmative finding of fact that the commissioners' court contracted with Mr. L. T. Standard to assist the tax collector in the collection of delinquent taxes. There is necessarily involved in the further findings of the court the facts that Mr. Standard performed the services, not for the tax collector as his deputy tax collector, but apart therefrom and in the…