Snodgrass v. Morris

The appellee is the auditor of Henry county, and the appellant is one of the mortgagors by whom a mortgage was executed to secure a loan obtained from the school fund. The object of the suit is to secure a cancellation of the mortgage, and the ground upon which a right to the relief sought is placed is that the property mortgaged belonged to the appellant, and was executed to obtain money for her husband.

A county auditor is a public officer, invested by the statute with certain rights and duties, and he possesses no other rights than those conferred by the statute. He is, in no sense, the…