The People v. Ballance

This cause is here on certificate of importance granted by the Appellate Court for the Fourth District. That court affirmed a judgment of the circuit court of Marion county entered in bar of appellant’s action to recover certain moneys •paid by him as executor of the last will and testament of W. H. Betts, deceased. The suit. is on the official bond of Ballance as county treasurer. It is the claim of appellant, as made by the declaration, that on June 17, 1926, W. H. Betts, who was then county clerk, paid to Ballance, as county treasurer, the sum of $1290.80 due Marion county from the county…