Commonwealth v. M'Gowan

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Logan.

Thomas. Dobyns, who had been the sheriff of Mason comity, having after the expiration of his term of service exercised the power and duties incident to the office, in selling land and collecting money due to the commonwealth for the arrearage of taxes, by virtue of a delinquent list transmitted through mistake to him by the auditor of public accounts'; in the years 1800 and 1801, the legislature passed laws for the relief of those who had been induced innocently t® make payments to said Dobyns under a *63belief that he was legally authorised to collect the…