Board of Commissioners v. Harman

The facts were specially found by the court and cohclusions of law stated. Two of the conclusions of law exhibit the principal questions in the case, as the others are repetitions of the same matter expressed in a little different form of words. The conclusions of law to which we refer are these:

*552Filed May 2, 1885.

“Fifth. The plaintiff, as sheriff of Benton county, has a legal demand against the defendant, the board of commissioners, for the reasonable value of the service and labor-necessary to the proper keeping of the jail and the prisoners committed thereto during the time it was kept by…