Cook v. Nacogdoches County

COMBS, Justice.

The appellant, H. M. Cook sheriff of Na-cogdoches County, filed this suit to recover $733.68 alleged to be due him by the County for expenses incurred in operating two automobiles belonging to him -in the discharge of his official business during the years 1937 and 1938. This amount represented the difference between the four cents per mile allowed by the statute, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. Art. 3899, Sec. (b), and the amounts actually paid him month to month by the Commissioners’ Court, which payments were accepted under protest. The County in addition to denying liability in any…