Trimble v. Board of Education

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This action asked for a declaration of rights concerning the fee the appellant-Sheriff could lawfully charge the appellee-School Board for collecting its taxes from January 1, 1958 to January 1, 1962. The Sheriff urged that he was entitled to three per cent of the amount of the taxes collected while appellees contended he was due only one per cent commission. The trial court found that the reasonable cost of collection of these taxes was one per cent for 1958 and one and three-tenths per cent for each of the following three years and entered judgment accordingly.

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