Honea v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal and Cross-appeal from the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. B. A. Honea, as treasurer of Monroe County, received in his settlement with the sheriff certain warrants which had never been registered under an act of the legislature, passed in 1876 (Acts of 1876, p. 31), which provided that no warrants, then outstanding, should thereafter be received for public dues, unless registered .within a limited time.
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Appeal and Cross-appeal from the Circuit Court of Monroe County. Hon. J. W. Buchanan, Judge. B. A. Honea, as treasurer of Monroe County, received in his settlement with the sheriff certain warrants which had never been registered under an act of the legislature, passed in 1876 (Acts of 1876, p. 31), which provided that no warrants, then outstanding, should thereafter be received for public dues, unless registered .within a limited time. In his settlement with the county, Honea received no credit for these warrants. He then, as individual owner, presented them to the board of supervisors and…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooper, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court..
*178This is an action of mandamus to enforce the payment of several warrants held by the plaintiff, which for convenience may be classified as follows : First, warrants issued in 1867 pursuant to orders of the board of police (now supervisors), for the salary of the probate judge of the county—these warrants are without the official seal of the clerk, but signed by him as clerk of the board; second, a warrant issued by the clerk of the board in 1867 without any order of the board, for the payment of the salary of the probate judge; third, warrants…
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