State Use Benefit of Garland Co. v. Jones

This is a suit instituted by appellants in the Garland chancery court to recover from John E. Jones, circuit clerk of that county, certain excess fees and commissions over and above the lawful salaries allowed to the said John E. Jones and his deputy clerk, D. W. Parker.

The complaint, among other things, alleges that John E. Jones was during 1931 to 1935, inclusive, and now is circuit clerk of Garland county, and that during this time D. W. Parker was his deputy; that Jones, as clerk, was entitled to an annual salary of $3,OQO in lieu of all fees, commissions, charges, and emoluments, and…