Tenpenny v. Cannon County

Me. Justice .Q-ailob

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by writ of error from a judgment dismissing plaintiff’s suit against Cannon County for one-third of a year’s salary which he alleged was due him as a former tax assessor of said County.

The original suit was filed in the Court of a Justice of the Peace on August 31, 1942. There was a judgment of dismissal from which plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court where the cause was heard on the following stipulation of facts: .

“The plaintiff J. E. Tenpenny was the duly elected, qualified and acting Tax Assessor in and for Cannon…