Fox v. Lantrip

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

This suit was brought by the appellees, taxpayers of Hopkins county, to recover from the appellant $1,840.40 alleged to have been illegally appropriated by the fiscal court of Hopkins county and paid to the appellant for services as county school superintendent for the years 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. The lower court gave judgment against the appellant for the full amount claimed, and he appeals.

The correctness of the judgment appealed from depends on the effect of certain orders made by the fiscal court on October…