McGuire v. Skelton
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Dezvey County; G. A. Brown, Judge. Action for damages and statutory penalty by H. D. McGuire, suing in the name of the State of Oklahoma, against S. A. Skelton, D. M. Wilson, Lewis Eerguson, and the Township of Trail, Dewey County. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition and dismissing plaintiff’s cause of action, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
SHARP, C.
The determination of this case involves a consideration and construction of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of March 8,' 1901, fixing the liability and determining the procedure against certain classes of public officers, guilty of a misappropriation of public funds. Sections 7413, 7414, Comp. Laws 1909. Plaintiff’s petition consisted of two counts. In the first it was charged that he was damaged in the sum of $76.25, the amount of the unauthorized, unlawful, fraudulent, and void warrant issued and paid by the officers of defendant township. The second count was to recover…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- International Harvester Co. of America v. CameronSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909
3Cited by11 opinions
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- Vaughan v. LattaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1934
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