Elrod v. Town of Bernadotte

This was an action of assumpsit, brought by appellant, in the Fulton circuit court, against appellee, to recover for services rendered and money expended in obtaining volunteers to enter the army, to save the town from a draft. On the trial, appellant introduced in evidence an act of the general assembly, entitled, an act to authorize the several towns of the county of Fulton to levy a tax. Its provisions were, to raise a fund to relieve the several towns of the county from the pending draft. Appellant, on the trial below, introduced evidence tending to prove that in the latter part of the…