Baker v. Lee

Smith, P. J.:

Action for taking and selling the plaintiff’s wagon. The defendant justified as collector of school taxes, by virtue of a warrant issued by the trustee.

It appeared in evidence that the original warrant issued to the defendant, as collector, had run out in his hands, and on the 30th of October, 1885, a few days after it expired, it was renewed by an indorsement upon it made by the trustee, or by his direction, in the following words : “ Renewed for teu days.” On November third, the trustee wrote upon it the additional words: “ Renewed for *592twenty days from the time it run out.” The…