State v. Tuscaloosa County

BOULDIN, Justice.

This is a proceeding by the State of Alabama v. Tuscaloosa County, Ala., et al., under the declaratory judgment statute (Gen. Acts 1935, p. 777) to determine whether the county is under legal obligation to reimburse the State for the expenses incurred in auditing the accounts, books, and records of the county superintendent of education and the county treasurer of school funds of Tuscaloosa County. The audit was made February 18 to March 30, 1935, covering a three-year period (July 1, 1929, to June 30, 1932) of the records examined. •

Admittedly, the governing statute, to be…