Harlan v. Sawyers

SIMS, Judge.

This action was instituted by Luther Harlan and George Bandy, citizens, residents and taxpayers of Clinton County, on behalf of all other taxpayers of that county against John Sawyers to recover $9,000 salary paid him as sheriff by the fiscal court from July 1950 through July 1953. Demand had been made by the plaintiffs upon the fiscal court to bring this suit and upon refusal the taxpayers brought it. Upon motion of defendant, the court in an exhaustive opinion dismissed the complaint on the ground the fiscal court had authority to pay this salary to defendant, since it was…