Peck v. Board of Commissioners

The appellant presented to the appellee, for allowance, an itemized account for commissions claimed on divers sums of money, other than taxes, paid to him as treasurer of Tippecanoe county. The appellee refused to allow any part of his account, and he appealed from its decision to the circuit court of the county. There the appellee’s motion to strike out each of the twenty-one items of the appellant’s account, for the reason that it was not a proper and lawful charge in his favor against the appellee, was sustained by the court as to each and all of the items. To this ruling the appellant…