Lewis County Court v. Lovell

Opinion by

Judge Hargis :

The county judge and justices of Lewis county, and a receiver appointed by them, instituted an action in their names for the benefit of Lewis county against appellee, Lovell, and his sureties, to compel him to pay to the receiver an alleged balance of the county levy for the year 1871, which they aver he, as sheriff, collected and failed to account for.

It appears from the petition and the exhibits made part of it that the appellee, Lovell, had returned to the county court the delinquent list for 1871, which was approved and allowed to him as a credit on the levy for…