Beaty v. Burch

B. S. Beaty brought an action against E. E. Burch, alleging that Burch had injured and damaged him in the sum of $1,000 by arbitrarily refusing to carry out the terms of a contract whereby Burch, who was sheriff of Montgomery County, agreed to make the plaintiff his deputy for a period of four years beginning January 1, 1929, and to pay the plaintiff for services rendered by him as deputy sheriff “two thirds of all costs, fines, forfeitures, and other emoluments of said office, . . in all criminal and civil processes brought to the superior court of said county and terminating therein that…