Legal Opinion

McCue v. County of Wapello

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 21, 1881PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Appeal from Wapello District Court. Action at law to recover for services rendered by plaintiff as sheriff of the defendant county. The cause was tried to the court without a jury and judgment rendered for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.

I. The petition alleges that plaintiff between the 19th day of September, 1878, and the 7th day of April, 1879, was acting sheriff of Wapello county, and, in the discharge of his duty as such officer, he rendered certain services and expended certain sums of money, for which, together with an amount due him as salary, he seeks to recover in this action. The answer denies the allegations of the petition and avers the facts connected with j)lamtiff’s claim to be substantially as set out in the finding of the court, which will hereafter appear. It further alleges that plaintiff performed the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Dorsey v. SmythCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
  2. Mayfield v. MooreIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  3. People ex rel. Benoit v. MillerMichigan Supreme Court · 1872
  4. People ex rel. Sullivan v. WeberIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
  5. Carroll v. SiebenthalerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Andrews v. City of PortlandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1887
  2. State ex rel. Worrell v. CarrIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
  3. Brown v. Tama CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
  4. Ness v. City of FargoNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1933
  5. State ex rel. Cutts v. HartMontana Supreme Court · 1919

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