Bauer v. Franklin County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from FranTelin County Circuit Court. It is submitted that in issuing warrants to the plaintiff to make up his loss, the county court did not abuse its discretion.
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Appeal from FranTelin County Circuit Court. It is submitted that in issuing warrants to the plaintiff to make up his loss, the county court did not abuse its discretion. The contract was not to be discharged in warrants, but in cash, and as the treasurer was entirely unable to meet the demands of the county court, it was competent for that body to raise money in the manner they did, under the power conferred by chapter 52, Gen. Stat. of 1865, and the Act of March 21st, 1868, (Sess., Acts 1868, page 42.) The exercise of discretionary power by county courts, may be unwise and extravagant, yet…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The objections, made on the argument of this cause, to the action of the court in admitting testimony, cannot be noticed here. All the objections made by both parties at the trial were general in their nature; no specific reasons were given why the evidence was inadmissable, and where such- is the case, the objections will not be considered in this court.
The real question underlying the whole casé, is the power of a County court, in fulfillment of a contract, to discount county warrants so as to make them equivalent to cash’.
*207The plaintiff entered into a contract with the county to grade and…
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