Board of Education v. Trimble

CULLEN, Commissioner.

D. B. Trimble,' Sheriff of Johnson County, retained four percent of the amount of taxes collected, as his fee for collecting school taxes for the Paintsville Independent School District for the fiscal years 1950-51 and 1951-52. The total collections were $72,732.70 for 1950-51 and $96,055.55 for 1951-52, and the amounts retained were $2,909.31 and $3,842.22 respectively. The board of education of the school district brought action seeking to limit the sheriff’s fee to one percent, and to recover the amount in excess of that percentage retained by the sheriff. The court…