Easterling v. Cook

This is a suit brought in the chancery court of Chicot County by appellant, a resident landowner and taxpayer in said county, for the benefit of himself and all other taxpayers in the county, to recover from appellees, officers of the county, $42,934.56 alleged to have been illegally diverted by them from the compromise loan bond fund, which was a fund raised by taxation for the purpose of paying the compromised bonded indebtedness of said county to the general revenue fund and to other funds, and used in repairing the courthouse, buying records, constructing bridges and buying in general…