Board of Supervisors v. King

Citations

• 115 Miss. 521
• 76 So. 543

Syllabus

<p>Clerks of Courts. Compensation. Copy of taw assessments.</p> <p>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.</p>