Woollen v. Board of Commissioners

Woollen, the treasurer of Jefferson county, at his settlement with the commissioners of said county in 1851, charged two and a half per centum for disbursing that portion of the county revenue collected on the tax-duplicate, and claimed an allowance, by the commissioners, of said charge. They refused to allow it. Woollen appealed to the Circuit Court, where the decision of the commissioners was affirmed. Woollen appealed to this Court.

The controversy grows out of a difference in the construction given by Woollen and the commissioners respectively, to the statutory provisions fixing the…