Scott v. Hunt

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

In this cause the Court of Civil Appeals have certified to this court the following explanatory statement and question:

“W. B. Kavanaugh was duly elected county clerk of Lamar County on November 6, 1897. He duly qualified as such clerk by executing bond in terms as required by the statute, with R. F. Scott, Gr. W. Smiley, and J. S. Crook as sureties, which bond was duly approved by the Commissioners Court of said county, and he performed the duties as such clerk from the date of his qualification, to wit, the 23d day of November, 1894, until November 11, 1896. During…