Alameda County v. Dalton

The defendant and appellant Henry P. Dalton was the assessor of Alameda County during the year 1899, and the other defendants and appellants were his official bondsmen. As such assessor, Henry P. Dalton, during said year, collected state poll-taxes amounting to $25,501, and retained for his own use $3,825.15, being fifteen per cent thereof, to which he claimed that he was entitled as commissions allowed by law for collecting the same, and turned the rest into the treasury of said county. This action was brought to recover the amount so retained by him. In their answer defendants admitted the…