Elder v. Board of County Commissioners

Action was brought under section 3776 of Mills’ Annotated Statutes, which is as follows: “When, by mistake or wrongful act of the treasurer, clerk or assessor, or from double assessment, land has been sold on which no tax was due at the time, the county shall hold the purchaser harmless by paying him the amount of principal, and interest at the rate of twenty-five per cent, per annum; and the treasurer, clerk or assessor, as the case may be, and his sureties on his official bond, shall he liable to the county for all losses sustained by the county from sales made through the (their) mistake…