Welch v. Kent

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, W. W. Kent, suing as county treasurer for and in behalf of Jefferson county, represented by E. W. Easterling, county attorney, against Louis Welch, Thomas E. Kelly, H. O. Mills and Ben F. Shipley, the four county commissioners of Jefferson county, and Clarence A. Ganoung, county auditor of Jefferson county, and his successor in office, Eugene Seale Foreman, to recover the sum of $1,597.75. For cause of action, appellee alleged that the county auditors approved certain claims totalling $1,597.75 as being due certain persons named in…