McKechnie v. Canada

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson — ■

Reversing.

Appellee Canada was one of the regularly elected, qualified and acting magistrates of the county of Wayne on January 1, 1922, and as such, was ex-officio a member of the Wayne county fiscal court. On February 5, 1918, the fiscal court, over which the Honorable J. C. Denney, county judge, presided, entered the following* order: ‘ ‘ Ordered by the court that each magisterial district shall receive its pro rata part of the road funds of Wayne county for the year 1918, with the exception of ten per cent (10%) which will go into the general…