Dalton v. Allen

Questions certified from the Court of Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme Judicial District of Texas, in an appeal from the District Court of Mills County.

The, certificate of the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals is as follows:

“To the Supreme Court of Texas:—

“G. H. Dalton, the County Judge of Mills County, and the other members of the Commissioners' Court of that county, brought this suit on behalf of the county to recover from S. H. Allen and the sureties on his official bond, money alleged to have been received by Allen while he was county judge of Mills county and appropriated to his own…