State Use and Benefit of Garland County v. Jones

The appellant filed in Garland chancery court a complaint against the appellees. The suit was brought in the name of the state of Arkansas, for the use and benefit of Garland county against John E. Jones, clerk of Garland circuit court, and D. W. Parker, deputy clerk. It alleged among other things that they had charged and collected, as clerk and deputy clerk, as fees and salary, amounts greatly in excess of the amount allowed by law; that they unlawfully appropriated the amounts charged and converted to their own use unlawfully, said amounts belonging to Garland county. The complaint is…