Doe v. County of Washington
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Washington county, McGluer, J., presiding, overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.
Under Laws 1877, c. 120, § 3, (Gen. St. 1878, e. 8, § 172,) a county treasurer is entitled to receive as compensation for his official services the percentages in that section prescribed, subject to limitations named in the proviso, based upon the valuation of taxable property in his county. Where the valuation exceeds six millions of dollars and does not exceed eight millions of dollars, the statute prescribes no such limitation, and therefore there is none, the compensation of a county treasurer being wholly regulated by statute. Yost v. County of Scott, 25 Minn. 366. In the case at bar the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yost v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1879