State v. Furlong
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, being disqualified to sit in this case, T. M. MilLer, Esq., by agreement of the parties, presided as Special Judge.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, being disqualified to sit in this case, T. M. MilLer, Esq., by agreement of the parties, presided as Special Judge. This is an action, commenced on the 29th of November, 1880, in behalf of the State to recover of Charles E. Furlong the aggregate amount of divers sums of money obtained by the defendant on false claims, as is alleged, for pretended services rendered by him during the years 1871, 1872, and 1873, as sheriff and ex-officio jailor of Warren County, in feeding and otherwise taking care of the prisoners in the jail of…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
■ Two replications are relied onto defeat defendant’s plea of the Statute of Limitations : First, that defendant had fraudulently concealed the cause of action ; second, that he had been absent from and resided out of the State.
The court properly ruled that the evidence adduced neither proved nor tended to prove a case of fraudulent concealment of the cause of action, within the meaning of the statute.
The evidence did tend strongly to show that defendant had been guilty of the grossest frauds in obtaining an allowance of his claim against the State for keeping prisoners in the county jail…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Buckner v. CalcoteMississippi Supreme Court · 1855
- Furlong v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1881
- Hackett v. KendallSupreme Court of Vermont · 1851
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