Fulk v. Board of Commissioners

This was an action by the appellant against: the appellee, to recover a balance claimed to be due him for his salary and deputy hire as sheriff of Monroe County, under the fee and salary act of 1871, Acts 1871, p. 25.

The averments in the complaint show that the appellant was sheriff of the county of Monroe from November, 1870, until November, 1872, and that he was' acting under the act before mentioned from the time it took effect until the. expiration of his term of office; that he had complied with all the provisions and requirements of the act as such sheriff; that the population of the…