Twinam v. Lucas County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lucas District Court. — Hon. M. A. Roberts, Judge. Action at law, in which plaintiff, a® a deputy marshal of the city of Chariton, seeks to recover compensation for services as a peace officer in arresting certain vagrants in Lucas county. The trial court sustained- a demurrer to his petition, -and he appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
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The case comes to us upon a certificate from the trial judge, the material parts of which are as follows: “On the sixth day of July, 1896, the plaintiff, *232J. W. Twinam, a deputy marshal of the city of Chariton, Iowa, filed a petition in the office of the clerk of the district court of Lucas county, Iowa, claiming that the defendant, Luca© county was indebted to him in the sum of fifty-six dollars and ten cents for service© performed by him as a peace officer, from the first day of October, 1895, to the first day of April, 1896, during his term of office as a deputy marshal, in the arrest,…
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