Cicotte v. County of Wayne

Plaintiff, who was sheriff of Wayne county in 1867 and 1868, and as such had charge of the county jail, presented his accounts, quarterly, for food furnished the prisoners, all other items of maintenance being provided for by the county itself. These accounts were laid before the county auditors and allowed by them at the sum claimed in the accounts rendered, with two exceptions. His earlier bills asked for fifty-five cents per day. The later ones were made and allowed at sixty cents a day, except the two last, which were cut down by the board to fifty-eight cents. In the early part of 1869,…