Sithin v. Board of Commissioners

Complaint by the appellant, against the appellee, to recover the amount of a bounty offered by the defendant to volunteers enlisting in the military service of the United States in the war of the late Rebellion, to supply the quota allotted to the county of Shelby. The orders of the board offering the bounty need not be here stated, as they will afterward appear in this opinion in stating the facts'found by the court; nor, for the same reason, need the facts alleged in the complaint he here more fully stated.

The defendant answered:

1. By general denial.

2. The statute of limitations of six…