Brown v. Knox County Court

Opinion by

Judge Hargis :

The county court of Knox, sitting as a court of claims, October, 1873, allowed to J. D. Bolton $124.50 for services rendered as a jail guard, and ordered the sheriff to pay it and the other claims allowed at that term out of the county levy for the year 1874.

The sheriff collected the county levy for that year, but the county court failed to compel him to execute bond for its collection and disbursement as required by Sec. 4, Art. 2, Chap. 27, General Statutes, or to levy a sum sufficient to pay the whole of the claims allowed by them.

Bolton signed the claim shortly…