Lawrence County v. Coffman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Lawrenee Circuit Court. Hon. R. H. Powerr, Circuit Judge. County court, under constitution, has exclusive jurisdiction of all matters concerning paupers, etc. See, on same point, Act 1875, see. 78; pp. of Pamph. Acts, 144-5; 80 Ark, 764. Section 672 of Cantt’s Digest not repealed.
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APPEAL from Lawrenee Circuit Court. Hon. R. H. Powerr, Circuit Judge. County court, under constitution, has exclusive jurisdiction of all matters concerning paupers, etc. See, on same point, Act 1875, see. 78; pp. of Pamph. Acts, 144-5; 80 Ark, 764. Section 672 of Cantt’s Digest not repealed. Jurisdiction will not be controlled. 10 Ark., 428; Knight v. Sharpe, 24 Ark, 602. No evidence that the contract was in excess of appropriations. .County court had full power to make the contract. Const, of 1874, Art. VII, sec. 28; Art. XIX, sec. 16; Gantt’s Digest, secs. 672 to 674; Act of 1875, pp. 1…
1Opinion of the Court
English, O. J.
It seems that the county court of Lawrence county, composed of the county judge and justices of the peace, at the October term, 1877, appropriated $1,507.50 for the payment of the pauper expenses of the county for the fiscal year extending from the first of July, 1877, to the first of July, 1878. ■
That the same court, composed as above, at the October term, 1878, appropriated from the funds to be raised by the. tax-levy of 1878, for the pauper expenses of the county, $1,500.
At the January term, 1878, the county court (the county judge sitting alone) made a contract, by order of…
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