Holtzclaw v. Riley

The sheriff of Houston county and tbe solicitor of the county court filed a petition for mandamus against the county judge, to compel him to pay to petitioners named amounts as fees out of moneys in his hands received as compensation for the labor of convicts hired out by him for Houston county to the county of Dooly. There was no dispute as to the facts, and the judge rendered judgment in favor of the petitioners for an amount less than that claimed. To this judgment all parties excepted, — the petitioners to the failure to grant all of the relief prayed, and the respondent to the judgment…