Wallace v. Crosthwait
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lawrence. Tried before the Hon. Osceola Kyle. The facts of the case necessary to the understanding of the decision on the present appeal are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HARALSON, J. —
This was a'motion by the defendant, W. K. Wallace, in the circuit court, to require the defendant, A. J. Crosthwait, clerk of the county court, to pay to him $45, the amount of a fine alleged to have been collected by him as clerk, in a criminal case in said court, wherein the defendant was convicted and fined $45 for violating a contract he had entered into with the said Wallace as his surety under section 4751 of the Code of 1896.
The case was tried by the court without a jury, upon the motion and answer, and an agreed statement of facts. No minute entry of the finding and…
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