Brownfield v. Houser
Oregon Supreme Court
From Umatilla: Stephen A. Lowell, Judge. Suit by C. W. Brownfield to restrain the officials of Umatilla County from issuing to Zoeth Houser, the county sheriff, a warrant for a certain sum theretofore audited and allowed by the County Court, but claimed to be partly composed of items that were properly not chargeable against the county; and to obtain an accounting of sundry amounts said to have been before improperly paid to the sheriff.
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From Umatilla: Stephen A. Lowell, Judge. Suit by C. W. Brownfield to restrain the officials of Umatilla County from issuing to Zoeth Houser, the county sheriff, a warrant for a certain sum theretofore audited and allowed by the County Court, but claimed to be partly composed of items that were properly not chargeable against the county; and to obtain an accounting of sundry amounts said to have been before improperly paid to the sheriff. Plaintiff appeals from an order sustaining a demurrer to his complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
This is a suit to restrain the county clerk of Umatilla County from issuing to Zoeth Houser a county order for services performed by him as sheriff. The plaintiff alleges that he is a resident taxpayer of Umatilla County, and that Zoeth Houser is sheriff, William Martin county *536judge, John H. Adams and T. P. Gilliland are county commissioners, and Benjamin S. Burroughs is county clerk, of said county; that said sheriff is entitled by law to receive from said county an annual salary of $2,500, and, in addition thereto, certain compensation for the board and…
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