Bice v. Foshee

(for the majority).

Some of the dipping vats in Chilton county provided for by acts of the Legislature, approved September 2, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 341), being in danger of destruction by dynamite in the hands of unknown parties, the appellee, under the direction of the sheriff of the county guarded one of such vats for a certain period of time. After the services had been rendered, appellee file(l his claim for compensation with the commissioners’ court. The amount of such claim being agreed upon as reasonable for the services so rendered, the commissioners drew a warrant for the amount in…