Traub v. Buchanan County

Respondent, Harry Traub, plaintiff below, filed a suit, containing forty-one counts against the county of Buchanan. The parties agreed to try the case before the court without a jury. The trial court entered a judgment in plaintiff's favor on all the counts of the petition in the amounts prayed for, and the county appealed.

In the first count plaintiff asked judgment for $493.88, alleging that as a balance due him for services rendered to the county during the year 1934. In the other counts plaintiff sued as assignee of claims due the assignors for services rendered to the county. The total…