Jefferson County v. Dockerty

FOSTER, Justice.

In this case the question is whether or not a deputy sheriff of Jefferson County, plaintiff in this suit, is entitled to recover of the county the fees as provided in section 129, title 29, Code, allowed an officer who arrests a person in possession of an unlawful quantity of prohibited liquor. It is not a controversy between the deputy sheriff on the one hand and. the sheriff on the other. But if the fee so provided is one which the sheriff is entitled to receive, although the deputy made the arrest, the deputy sheriff in this case would not be entitled to recover it from the…