Boatright v. Saline County

Appellant, Boatright, sued respondent, Saline County, Missouri, to recover $3200.00 alleged to have been paid by him to the Aetna Insurance Company as premiums on a surety bond while he was county collector, from March 1, 1939, to March 1, 1943. The trial court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff's petition and from the judgment entered Boatright appealed.

The suit was based upon the provisions of section 3238, Mo. Rev. St. Ann. (1939), which insofar as applicable to counties reads:

"Whenever any officer . . . of any county of this state . . . shall be required by law of this state . . . to enter…