Judge & Justices of Hickman County Court v. Moore
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 23 — MANDAMUS APPEAL FROM HICKMAN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 1 Revised Statutes, sec. 1, chap. 44. Act of Feby. 14, 1864, Myers' Sup., 279. 2 Bibb, 98; Adams vs. Ashby. 2 Dana, 345 ; Hickman vs. Littlepage. CITED— Myers' Sup., 279. . CITED— 2 Dana, 845-6. 2 Bibb, 98. Rev. Stat., chap. 44, and Myers’ Sup., 254 and 279.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion oe the court:
The circuit court, “ satisfied,” as its record states, that the jail of Hickman county was insecure, ordered the jailer to summon three persons to help him to guard three prisoners, who had been committed to it on criminal charges. Their accounts for their services, verified by the jailer, and amounting, in the aggregate, to nearly one thousand dollars, were allowed by the same court at a subsequent term, and certified to the court of claims of Hickman county, on which the 1st section of chapter 44, Revised Statutes (p. 582), devolved the cost…
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