Mottin v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

The question to be decided arises upon a demurrer to evidence. The plaintiff sued upon claims for repairing bridges. The plaintiff’s evidence .tended to prove the following facts: The board of county commissioners had appointed M. C. Kennedy, one of its members, a committee on roads, bridges and poor for the first commissioner district, and J. Bleakley, another member, a like committee for the third district. These committee appointments were entered on the journal of the board. A deputy county surveyor, who is a civil engineer of…