Commercial Trust Co. of Hagerstown v. Burch
District Court, S.D. Georgia
At Law. Action by the Commercial Trust Company, of Hagerstown against H. C. Burch and others. On plea in bar and demurrers.
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, District Judge.
In this suit at law in six counts the plaintiff seeks to hold personally liable the county commissioners, clerk, treasurer, and attorney of Laurens county because of their connections with the issuance of certain repudiated notes of the county given for borrowed money. Each count is demurred to. The main facts alleged in each are these:
On January 10, 1918, the county commissioners passed a resolution declaring that there was “a casual and temporary deficiency in the public funds in the treasury of the county of Laurens, .and a casual and temporary need of money to meet…
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