Lumpkin County v. Davis

Jenkins, Justice.

1. It is the official duty of a board of county commissioners of roads and revenues to fix and allow to the sheriff as ex-officio jailer “a sufficient amount for the diet of prisoners, that their strength and health should not suffer in consequence of any insufficiency of food.” Board of Commissioners of Jasper County v. Persons, 155 Ga. 277 (2) (116 S. E. 538); Code, §§ 77-103, 77-110, 24-2823. Whether or not, upon their failure so to do, mandamus would be the proper remedy to require reimbursement to the sheriff for funds thus necessarily expended by him in excess of the…