Jackson v. Tom Green County

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

Appellant, as sole heir at law of his father, Hugh Jackson, deceased, sued Tom *116Green County for deficiency at the rate of $400 per annum in payment of the father’s salary as justice of the peace, from January 1, 1936, to July 28, 1945, the date of the father’s death. The claim was presented to the Commissioners’ Court March 5, 1947, and disallowed March 15, 1947, except for the sum of $166.65; that being the amount due for the five-month period (February 28-July 28, 1945) next preceding the father’s death, on the manifest theory that all sums accruing prior to March…