School District No. 45 v. Correll

— -This action is brought by a common school district against the county treasurer to recover funds wrongfully and illegally paid out by him. On trial to a jury the verdict was for plaintiff in the sum of $1411.20, and from the judgment thereon, defendant has appealed.

The petition alleges that defendant, as the duly elected and qualified treasurer of Pemiscot county, was the legal custodian and had possession of the school funds belonging to the various school districts of the county; that it was the duty of defendant to pay out the funds of the districts only upon warrants drawn thereon duly…