Baxter v. Rusk County

The commissioners’ court of Rusk county refused to audit and allow an account for certain commissions as fees of office presented as a claim against the county by the appellant, the county treasurer. She timely filed suit founded upon the entire claim. The sum of the fees claimed is ⅞2,-760.16. The county answered, in substance, that there was due and payable the sum of $337.99, which had been credited and allowed at the time by the commissioners’ court, and tendered that sum into court, and denied that there was any more commissions owing and not paid to the treasurer. After hearing the…