Potter v. Douglas County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Douglas Circuit Court. — Host. R. W. Evan, Judge. “No county * * * shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose.”
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Appeal from Douglas Circuit Court. — Host. R. W. Evan, Judge. “No county * * * shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose.” Section twelve, article ten, of the constitution of the state of Missouri, simply means that the income and revenue for that year may be expended the same year, and the county may go in debt the same year to an amount not in excess of the income of…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Plaintiff brings this action to recover of defendant the sum of four hundred and fifty-nine dollars, on account of services performed by him as sheriff and jailor of Gfreene county, in keeping, boarding, clothing and taking to court certain prisoners committed to the jail of that county by the sheriff of defendant, under the provisions of section 6090, Revised Statute^. The bill of plaintiff for these services, though.] *241approved by the circuit judge and prosecuting attorney, the county court of defendant, on its presentation, refused to pay or pass upon.
The case was tried on an.-agreed…
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