Commissioners' Court v. Moore
Supreme Court of Alabama
APPEAL from Circuit Court of Coffee. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. On the 16th day of July, 1866, the commissioners’ court of Coffee county after hearing evidence upon a claim presented against the county by John G. Moore, passed the following order: “It is ordered by the court that the county treasurer pay to J. G. Moore three hundred dollars for four hundred bushels of corn, bought for the indigent families of Coffee county, and delivered at Henderson’s Store, in the…
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APPEAL from Circuit Court of Coffee. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. On the 16th day of July, 1866, the commissioners’ court of Coffee county after hearing evidence upon a claim presented against the county by John G. Moore, passed the following order: “It is ordered by the court that the county treasurer pay to J. G. Moore three hundred dollars for four hundred bushels of corn, bought for the indigent families of Coffee county, and delivered at Henderson’s Store, in the year 1864, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.” This order was duly presented to, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
Counties are not only mere local sub-divisions of the territory of the State, but civil or political organizations, with limited and defined powers, and are agencies or auxiliaries in the administration of civil government. Dillon Munic. Cor. § 10; Webster County v. Taylor, 19 Iowa, 117. Every county in this State is by statute declared a body corporate, capable oí sueing and being sued. Like other corporations, the power with which it is clothed is exercised by officers. The court of county commissioners is entrusted with the authority and jurisdiction, whether legislative, judicial or…
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