Hendricks v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court-of Lowndes county. Hon. J. A. Orr, Judge. • This was an action brought by M. E. Hendricks, whose husband was clerk of the board of supervisors of Lowndes county, against the board, to recover the sum of $300.00, for services alleged to have beven rendered in issuing four hundred commissions to road-overseers.
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Error to the circuit court-of Lowndes county. Hon. J. A. Orr, Judge. • This was an action brought by M. E. Hendricks, whose husband was clerk of the board of supervisors of Lowndes county, against the board, to recover the sum of $300.00, for services alleged to have beven rendered in issuing four hundred commissions to road-overseers. The jury found for the defendants in the court below, and the. plaintiff, his motion for a new trial being overruled, sued out a writ of error, and brings the case to this court, and assigns the following errors :■ 1. The court erred in overruling the motion…
1Opinion of the CourtSimp.all, J.
The plaintiff in error sued the board of supervisors of Lowndes county, to recover compensation, for issuing notices by her intestate, as clerk, of the appointments of road overseers, for the years 1870 and 1871, amounting to $300.00, as appears from the account filed with the declaration.
The cause has been removed into this court, to review the judgment of the circuit court, which was adverse to the claim.
It is made the duty of the chancery clerk, who is also clerk of the board of supervisors, to deliver, within ten days, to the sheriff, copies of the appointment of all road overseers made…
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