Frownfelter v. State ex rel. County Commissioners

This action was brought by the State on a bond executed by Daniel Myers and the appellants. At the trial in the Circuit Court evidence was offered on the part of the plaintiff to show that Myers had been collector of the county taxes in the third election district of Carroll County, from May or June, 1812, continuously, up to the eleventh day of May, 1881; and that he was on that day appointed by the county commissioners to collect the State and county taxes for that year; and that when he *82was appointed he was allowed a salary of two hundred dollars a year; and that on the twenty-sixth of…