Leach v. Wilson County

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This is an action brought by the appellant to recover of Wilson county the sum of seven hundred and thirty dollars, evidenced by a warrant drawn upon its county treasurer in favor of Maverick & Kroeger, dated June 1, 1872, and indorsed by them in blank. The warrant was issued in obedience to an order of the commissioners court of the county, made on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1872, which order recites that the warrant is for a balance due Maverick & Kroeger on a contract for building a court house.

The main defense set up in the court below was that Maverick &…