High v. Board of Commissioners

Colerick, C.

This was an action brought by the appellant High against the appellee, the board of commissioners of Shelby county, to recover the amount of a bounty offered by said board to persons enlisting in the military service of United States in the late war of the Rebellion, to fill a quota assigned to Shelby county under a call of the President of the United States for volunteers to suppress the Rebellion.

The complaint, in substance, avers that on the 2d day of November, 1863, said board made, and entered upon the record of its proceedings, an order, a copy of which is set forth in the…