Nelms v. Williams

This was an action by Williams, who was the principal sheriff of Perry county, against Nelms, who was his office deputy, to recover monies received by the latter for his principal.

*651It appears from a bill of exceptions, that Nelms acted as such deputy sheriff from Sept. 1548, until June 1844, and had collected various sums in that capacity for his said principal, and that in the fall of 1844, they selected one West to state an account between them; that West made out the account, and ascertained that Nelms owed Williams the sum of $1610, which Nelms admitted to be correct, and for which he was…