Greene v. Jones

OpinioN op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, CommissioneR'

Affirming.

This appeal presents for decision, the question whether or not sheriffs are entitled to mileage both ways or only one way for conveying prisoners to the penitentiary and the house of reform, and for conveying persons charged with a felony from one county to another.

The'controversy arises in the following way.1 Plaintiffs, J. B. Jones and Thomas Logan, sheriffs respectively of Pulaski and Hopkins counties, brought suit against the Auditor of Public Accounts to require him to audit their claims for mileage both ways. The Auditor…