Dallas County v. Kennedy

FOSTER, Justice.

This suit is by a petition filed by appellee, who is the sheriff of Dallas County, and against the county to obtain a declaratory judgment as to the ownership as between him and the county of the reward of fifty dollars in each case provided for in section 102, Title 29, Code 1940.

The controversy is controlled by a proper answer to the question of whether such reward is a fee, commission, allowance, or other compensation provided by law (other than his salary fixed by the Constitution) so as to require him as sheriff to “cover the same into the county treasury” under…