State v. Moeller
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court The words “ all other moneys for school purposes,” in section 81 of the school law, cannot mean moneys arising from'the sale of school lands.
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Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court The words “ all other moneys for school purposes,” in section 81 of the school law, cannot mean moneys arising from'the sale of school lands. When the Legislature authorized the county clerks to collect fines and penalties, which amount at most to a few hundred dollars annually, it did not mean, by the addition of the words “ other school moneys,” to authorize the clerks to collect the whole school fund, which in many counties amounts to tens of thousands of dollars. (1 Blackst. Com. 87, § 2.) The words “fines, penalties, and all other moneys,” mean fines,…
1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge
Defendant Moeller was charged with collecting, as clerk of the Carroll County Court, certain moneys belonging to the school fund of the county, to-wit: the proceeds of the sale of the swamp lands,' of the sale of section 16, and money received ' under the stray act. This suit is upon his official bond, and his sureties, claim in defense that it was no part of the clerk’s official duty to collect such moneys, and consequently that they are not holden on the bond for their reimbursement.
Counsel for relator base the liability of defendant upon Gen. Stat. 1865, ch. 46, § 81; Wagn.' Stat. 1259, §…
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