People v. Davis
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of debt. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Harry M. Waggoner, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
At the time of the judgment in the court below, this was an action of debt in the name of the People for the use of the Treasurer of Knox county against James W. Davis and O. A. Stetson, the only surviving obligors upon the official bond of Bobert G. Mathews, as sheriff of Knox county for a term of four years beginning December 1890. The breach assigned in the declaration was that Mathews, at the expiration of his term of office, retained a large amount of fees, monies, emoluments and earnings collected by him, over and above his lawful salary, clerk- hire and other expenses, lawfully allowed…
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