Rouse v. Pima County

Citations

• 10 Ariz. 218
• 85 P. 1075
• 1906 Ariz. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>1. COUNTIES — OFFICERS—COMPENSATION-BEV. STATS. AEIZ. 1901, PAES. 970, 2609, 2628, 3882, Construed. — Under paragraph 970, supra, providing that “The clerk oí the board must . . . perform all other duties required by law, or any rule or order of the board,” paragraph 2609, supra, providing “County officers shall receive such compensation as is provided hereafter, and none other,” paragraph 2628, supra, providing “In counties of the first class, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum,’’ and paragraph 3882, supra, providing “As soon as the board of supervisors of each county has so levied the taxes as provided in this title, they shall add up the columns of valuation and enter the total valuation of each description of property on a roll, and shall cause a true copy of said assessment-roll to be made, to be styled a duplicate assessment-roll, . . . and shall give the county treasurer a statement thereof, . . . which said duplicate assessment-roll and also the plat or map book shall be delivered to the tax-eolleetor on or before the third Monday in September,” the fact that a clerk of the board of supervisors of a county of the first class, at the request of the board, without a promise on their part to pay extra for such work, prepared a duplicate assessment-roll outside of office hours, gave him no right to recover from the county on a quantum meruit compensation beyond his official salary, especially where there was no evidence that there was not ample time for its preparation during the official office hours, between the date when it was ordered and the date when it was required by statute to be completed and delivered to the tax-collector.</p>