Cutts v. Rock County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Rock County. This case is here on cross-appeals by the respective parties thereto from portions of the judgment. It was tried by the court without a jury. There is no bill of exceptions in the record. The facts found by the court are substantially as follows: During the years 1887 and 1888 Silas Ward was sheriff of Rock county, and A. K. Cutts, the plaintiff, was the under-sheriff and also one of the • constables of that county.
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Rock County. This case is here on cross-appeals by the respective parties thereto from portions of the judgment. It was tried by the court without a jury. There is no bill of exceptions in the record. The facts found by the court are substantially as follows: During the years 1887 and 1888 Silas Ward was sheriff of Rock county, and A. K. Cutts, the plaintiff, was the under-sheriff and also one of the • constables of that county. Before 1887 the board of supervisors of Rock county, by resolution, changed the method theretofore existing for compensating the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyou, C. J.
I. On the appeal of the plaintiff but little need be said. Under ch. 53, Laws of 1881, the salary received by Sheriff Ward was in lieu of all fees and compensation for services rendered by him and the deputy sheriffs within the county of Rock (except for keeping and maintaining prisoners in the common jail) which the county would have been liable to pay had ch. 53 not been enacted. This is theplain, unambiguous reading and meaning of the statute. S. & B. Ann. Stats, sec. 694a, subd. 3. Book county is primarily liable to pay the sheriff and deputies for attendance upon the sessions of the…
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