Wilson v. Wallace
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Holmes County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. On May 15, 1882, W. C. Harrington killed one B. W. Phillips, in Holmes County, and fled. In January, 1883, the governor offered a reward of two hundred dollars for his arrest and conviction. In September, 1883, one Charles Duning, a private detective, arrested Harrington at Texarkana, Texas, without warrant or requisition,, and brought him in his custody to Durant, Holmes County, this-State.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Holmes County. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. On May 15, 1882, W. C. Harrington killed one B. W. Phillips, in Holmes County, and fled. In January, 1883, the governor offered a reward of two hundred dollars for his arrest and conviction. In September, 1883, one Charles Duning, a private detective, arrested Harrington at Texarkana, Texas, without warrant or requisition,, and brought him in his custody to Durant, Holmes County, this-State. While Duning was proceeding with Harrington from Durant to Lexington, to deliver the latter to the sheriff of Holmes-County, he…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
Wilson, being a taxpayer in the County of Holmes, was entitled to appeal from the order of the board of supervisors allowing the claim against the county presented by the appellee, Notwithstanding the fact that his taxes for his proportion of the sum allowed may be small, yet the taxpayers of a county are individually and collectively interested in all cases where claims are presented against the county, since from them must be raised by taxation the money necessary to discharge them. The language of § 2351 of the code' is that: “ Any person who may conceive himself aggrieved by any judgment…
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