State Use Greene County v. McCoy

This ease went off on demurrer to the complaint in the trial court, and an appeal was duly prosecuted to this court from the decree of the chancery court dismissing appellant’s complaint on the ground that the allegations thereof were insufficient to confer .jurisdiction of the cause of action upon said court.

The purpose of the complaint was to recover all amounts from appellee, R. V. McCoy, and his bondsmen, in excess of $5,000 per annum, which came into his hands as treasurer of Greene County. The gist of the complaint cannot be better or more tersely expressed than by copying herein…