Spence & Dudley v. Clay County
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Eastern District; J. F. Gautney, Judge; 1. The findings of the court are not supported by the evidence. 2. It was error to hold that any additional ¡claim for services in the quo warranto proceeding was barred 'by the allowance of $600 at the April term, 1911. The clerk simply made a misprision in writing the judgment. 3. The court erred in holding that the county court had no authority to employ counsel to defend the suit.
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Appeal from Clay Circuit Court, Eastern District; J. F. Gautney, Judge; 1. The findings of the court are not supported by the evidence. 2. It was error to hold that any additional ¡claim for services in the quo warranto proceeding was barred 'by the allowance of $600 at the April term, 1911. The clerk simply made a misprision in writing the judgment. 3. The court erred in holding that the county court had no authority to employ counsel to defend the suit. Kirby’s Digest, § 6393; 50 Ark. 566. The suit was not against the county, but against all the officers of the county and does not come…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
At the October, 1914, term of the county court of Clay County, Arkansas, appellants presented for allowance a claim for legal services performed for the county. The claim was duly authenticated and the amount claimed to be due was $1400. The county court refused to allow the claim and an appeal was 'taken to the circuit court. The material facts adduced in evidence in the record .are as follows:, The Legislature of 1895 passed an act* detaching Blue Cane township from Greene County 'and attaching the same to Clay County. In June, 1909, the Attorney General filed in the Supreme Court quo…
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