Jackson County v. Derrick
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jackson. Heard before the Hon. William H. Simpson. The bill in this case was filed by Jackson county, against the appellees, who were the administrator of one J. M. Dicus, deceased, and the sureties on the successive bonds of said J. M. Dicus, deceased, as treasurer of the county of Jackson.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jackson. Heard before the Hon. William H. Simpson. The bill in this case was filed by Jackson county, against the appellees, who were the administrator of one J. M. Dicus, deceased, and the sureties on the successive bonds of said J. M. Dicus, deceased, as treasurer of the county of Jackson. The bill averred the election of Dicus as treasurer of Jackson county in the years 1888 and 1892 and that the respondents, with the exception of the administrator, were sureties on the bonds of said J. M. Dicus, which were given by him, as treasurer of said county, after…
1Opinion of the CourtBriokell, C. J.
The case is an appeal from a decree of the court-of chancery, sustaining demurrers and dismissing for want of equity, an original bill for relief, in which the appellant was the party complainant. The principal purpose of the bill is, to compel the sureties on successive bonds of a deceased county treasurer, to an accounting of the fine and forfeiture fund, the principal had received, and to the payment of such parts thereof as he had misappropriated. The misappropriation consisting in the application of the fund to the payment of claims which were not legally chargeable upon it, and in the…
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