Gross v. Metcalf

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Ambrose Metcalf, E. J. Baumgardner and Clarence Cox were on May 10, 1947, the duly appointed and acting county police officers of Harlan County, while A. J. R. Howard was then its duly elected, qualified and acting- county judge. The plaintiff, and appellant, Clark Gross, was at that time operating a roadhouse in the southern part of the county only one-half mile from the Bell County line. On that date, Metcalf, who was chief of the county police, went before the defendant, and appellee, Howard, County Judge, and filed his affidavit to procure a search warrant of…