Lancaster County v. Hoagland

Maxwell, Oh. J.

This case was appealed to the district court, from a decision of the board of county commissioners of Lancaster county, allowing the defendant only fifty cents per day for boarding prisoners in the county jail, he having presented a bill to the said commissioners claiming at the rate of seventy cents per day, for boarding said prisoners. Judgment in the district court was given in favor of the appellant and the county brought the cause here by petition in error.

The question presented involves the construction of the several acts of the legislature in regard to the fees of…