Myers v. Buchanan County

PRITCHARD, Judge.

The issue is whether respondent sheriff of Buchanan County, Missouri, may be reimbursed for mileage expenses incurred in two years (1969 and 1970) in excess of amounts budgeted for that purpose.

It is stipulated: Respondent was the duly elected sheriff for a four year term beginning January 1, 1969. Buchanan County is a second class county of this state. Appellants County Judges were duly elected and assumed their duties January 1, 1971, and the county for 1969 and 1970 provided no motor vehicles for the respondent sheriff as authorized by Sec. 57.349, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., as…