Supervisors of Kewaunee County v. Knipfer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Kewaunee County. The facts in the case were stipulated by the parties, and are substantially as follows: The defendant Knipfer was elected to tbe office of county treasurer of Kewaunee county at the general election in 1868, and again at the general election in 1870, and held such office for two terms, or from January, 1869, to January, 1873. The other defendants are the sureties in his official bond for the last of said terms.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Kewaunee County. The facts in the case were stipulated by the parties, and are substantially as follows: The defendant Knipfer was elected to tbe office of county treasurer of Kewaunee county at the general election in 1868, and again at the general election in 1870, and held such office for two terms, or from January, 1869, to January, 1873. The other defendants are the sureties in his official bond for the last of said terms. In January, 1873, Knipfer was succeeded in such office by one Syke, who had been duly elected thereto at the preceding general…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
For the purposes of the case it will be assumed that, by adopting the report of the committee appointed to ' examine the final account of Mr. Knipfer as county treasurer, *501the board of supervisors allowed him $2,000 over and above his regular salary, for selling and assigning tax certificates belonging to the county during his two terms of service as such officer.
The duty of selling and assigning such certificates is imposed by law upon the county treasurer. Laws of 1861, eh. 188, see. 1 (Tay. Stats., 480, § 145). The same being an official duty of that officer, his salary necessarily includes…
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