Rains v. Simpson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Rains. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark.
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The appellant and plaintiff below, P. P. Bains, as former sheriff of Bains county and ex-officio collector of taxes, sued the defendants, Levi Simpson and others, as former justices of the peace and ex-officioCounty Court of said county, for an alleged wrongful and malicious refusal to approve a new bond which they had required of him as such collector, and which had been tendered' by him for approval, and had been rejected by them by order entered upon tbe minutes in open court, to his actual damages, in the loss of commissions, $1,000, and for exemplary damages.
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