Moore v. Shields

— This was a suit by Ambrose T. Shields against Milton N. and 'William T. Moore, to recover a sum of money paid to the defendants by the plaintiff for a township warrant, or note, alleged to have been issued without any consideration, and in violation of his official duty, by a township trustee, in Lawrence county, to R. B. Pollard.

The first paragraph of the complaint is an ordinary common count for money had and received by the defendants to the plaintiff’s use. It is charged in the second paragraph that the warrant had been issued in pursuance of a conspiracy into which the defendants had…