Board of Supervisors v. King
Board of Supervisors v. King
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The board of supervisors of Grenada county filed suit as’ainst John S. King alleging that King was the duly and legally elected and acting chancery clerk of Grenada county from the first Monday of January, 1908, to the first Monday of January, 1916, and that while so acting as clerk he filed a claim with the board of supervisors for services in making a cony of the tax assessment rolls filed with him by the Railroad Commission; that on. these claims he was allowed on October 5, 1908, thirty
“The board of supervisors may allow to the clerk reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the county treasury, for making the copies of assessment rolls required by law, not to exceed one cent for each personal assessment, or two cents for each separate assessment of lands per copy; but the board of supervisors may allow as much as fifty dollars in any case for copying the personal roll.” '
Section 4384 requires the state Commission-to assess property of railroad, telegraph, telephones, sleeping car, and express companies, and section 4387 provides that in each year the Railroad Commission shall make out for each county having any railroad, telegraph,
Affirmed.
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- Clerks of Courts. Compensation. Copy of taw assessments. Under Code 1906, section 2175, declaring that the board of supervisors may allow the clerk reasonable compensation for making copies of assessment rolls, not to exceed one cent for .each separate assessment of lands per copy but the board may allow , as much as fifty dollars in any case for copying the personal roll and under section 4384, requiring the state Railroads Commissioners to assess property of railroads, telegraph, telephones, sleeping car and express companies and section 4387, providing that in each year the commission shall make out for each county having any such property an assessment roll of such property therein and assess both real and personal property, and that the form of such assessment shall be transmitted to the clerk and under section 4390 requiring the clerk to make copies but making no provisions for compensation, the clerk’s compensation is governed by section 2175, and in a suit by the board of superivisors against its clerk for over payments made him for such service, the board cannot recover unless it specifies in its declaration what companies were assessed in the county by the railroad commission and the number of such assessments and the amount that was properly allowed the clerk.