Tinsley v. Rusk County
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Busk. Tried below before the Hon. M. D. Ector. Suit on assessor and collector’s bond. A question rose on the trial of this cause as to admissibility in evidence, of a certificate signed by A. Bledsoe, Comptroller of the State, certifying to facts in regard to taxes which appeared of record in his office, but having no reference to any copy from the records accompanying the certificate.
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Appeal from Busk. Tried below before the Hon. M. D. Ector. Suit on assessor and collector’s bond. A question rose on the trial of this cause as to admissibility in evidence, of a certificate signed by A. Bledsoe, Comptroller of the State, certifying to facts in regard to taxes which appeared of record in his office, but having no reference to any copy from the records accompanying the certificate. The facts of this case will be found carefully stated in the opinion, except the testimony of Kilgore, the only witness on the subject of indebtedness. He testified that, after the expiration of…
1Opinion of the Court
Devine, Associate Justice.
John C. McCammon was sued as principal and appellants as the sureties on McCammon’s bond as assessor and collector of taxes for the county of Eusk during the years 1868,1869, and 1870. The petition charged as breaches of the bond, his failure to account for and pay over to the treasurer of Rusk county the sum of nineteen dollars ($19.86) of the taxes collected by him during the year 1868, with a like failure to account for and pay over the further sum of twelve hundred and forty-two dollars ($1,242) of the taxes of said county, collected by him during the year 1869,…
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