Henderson v. State ex rel. Stout

On the 25th day of April, 1893, the appellee filed a petition in the Marion Circuit Court, the purpose of which was to compel the appellant, as State auditor, to draw a warrant on the State treasurer in favor of the relator, as sheriff of Vigo county, as compensation for the delivery of convicts at the Southern State prison.

It is alleged in the petition, among other things, that the relator is the sheriff of Vigo county, having heen elected to that office at the November election, in the year 1892; that in the year 1892 and in the year 1893, as such sheriff, he conveyed from Vigo county to…