Hurst v. Sumter County

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

In that both sides to this controversy have appealed, we will hereafter refer to C. M. Hurst, respondent-appellant, as plaintiff, and to Sumter County et al. as defendant.

Plaintiff is the sheriff for Sumter County, and has been for a number of years, having been duly elected to this office, and qualified and commissioned on March 1, 1929, March 1, 1933, and on March 11, 1937. The plaintiff having abandoned the second cause of action relating to salary, we are concerned in this appeal with only the first cause of action in the…