Shirk v. County Board
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Massac county; the Hon. William N. Butleb, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eagleton
In the fall of 1914, Osro Shirk, the appellee, was elected to the office of sheriff of Massac county, the appellant, for a term of 4 years and assumed the office and entered upon the discharge of his duties as such officer on the 8th day of December, 1914, and continued in such office until the expiration of said term in December, 1918.
Massac county is a first-class county, and under the law the sheriff is the keeper of the county jail and custodian of all persons confined therein, and he is charged with the duty, among other duties, of serving each prisoner confined in the jail with…
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