{ "id": 1873838, "name": "Vance and Wallace, Adm'rs, vs. The State, use Crittenden County", "name_abbreviation": "Vance v. State ex rel. Crittenden County", "decision_date": "1879-11", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "176", "last_page": "180", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "35 Ark. 176" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "17 Ark., 417", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "30 Ark., 557", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1881257 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/30/0557-01" ] }, { "cite": "38 Ark., 317", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": 0 } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 348, "char_count": 6762, "ocr_confidence": 0.432, "pagerank": { "raw": 5.077876018941296e-08, "percentile": 0.3200966542837053 }, "sha256": "53651ccf20e187a4fb3814999ce102ee20b19770fe80ad1d45a432e72e8c1a6e", "simhash": "1:6ad488a88f15db58", "word_count": 1194 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:23:57.212153+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Vance and Wallace, Adm\u2019rs, vs. The State, use Crittenden County." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Harrison, J.\nThis was a suit on the bond, of Robert C. Wallace as treasurer of Crittenden county, against his administrators, William Vance, jr., and Eliza Wallace, and J. W. Guerrant, John R. Jenkins and R. N. Wallace, the sureties in the bond.\nThe bond was given on the fourth day of June, 1873, and was in the penal sum of $10,000. The breach of the condition assigned, was, that the said Robert 0. Wallace, upon a settlement, by him as such treasurer with the county court, on the twenty-second day of February, 1875, was found to have \u00edeceived, and. which was unexpended, the sum of $1,499.94 in money or currency of the United States, and th e further sum of $1,995 in money or like currency of the court-houfee and jail fund; and that although demand was made upon him for said moneys, he, in his lifetime, failed to bring the same into the county court, nor did he disburse the same fcfr the county, nor had his administrators, since his death, paid or brought the said moneys into the .county court, or accounted for the same.\nThe defen dants, in their answer, denied that the said sum of $1,995, belonging to the court-house and jail' fund, was received by said \"Wallace in money, but averred that it was paid to him by the collector in treasurer\u2019s certificates, or state scrip, and that the board of supervisors, on the sixteenth day of October, 1874, made an order, that the state scrip belonging to the court-house and jail fund, in the county treasury, should be exchanged by the treasurer for court-house and jail bonds, or the coupons of such bonds, at the rate of four dollars in scrip for one of bonds or coupons ; that he, in obedience to the order, exchanged the scrip \u2022 for $500 in past-due coupons ; and that at the time of his settlement, he brought said coupons into and tendered them to the county court in lieu of the state scrip, to be canceled; and they made, in their answer, a tender of the coupons to the plaintiff.\nIt was not denied that upon the settlement, Wallace was found to have received \u2014 and which he had not disbursed or paid out for the county \u2014 the $1,499.94 in currency ; but without averring that he had afterwards dis bursed or paid out any part of it, they denied, in general terms, that he owed, or that they owed the same, or any part of it to the county.\nThe cause-was tried by the court, without a j.ury, which found that there was in the hands of Wallace, as treasurer, at the 'time of the settlement, $1,499.94 in currency, and $1,995, but in what kind of funds was not stated, belonging to the court-house and jail fund; and rendered judgment for the plaintiff for the aggregate sum of $3,494.94 against all the defendants in personam.\nThe defendants moved for a new trial, upon the ground that the finding of the court was contrary to the evidence; their motion was overruled, and they appealed.\nIt appears that the county court of Crittenden county, under the authority given by the act of March 28,1871, issued bonds of the county to build a court-house and jail, and that $1,995 of the tax which it levied to pay the bonds, one-fifth of them maturing every year, was received by the collector and paid over by him to the treasurer, in treasurer\u2019s certificates, or state scrip, and not, as alleged in the complaint, in money.\ni. &\u00a1mhs\nissued before March 2M8ru re?\u00bfrtkous\u00ae\n2. cookty\nProducing funds for counting,\nThat such certificates, if issued prior to the passage of the act referred to, were receivable for the tax, admits of \u2022 . no question. Gantt's Digest, sec. 2813; English v. Oliver, 38 Ark., 317; Parham v. Izard, 30 Ark., 557.\nThose so received and paid over by the collector, the evidence showed, were issued prior to the act. \"When the treasurer was directed to make the exchange for bonds and coupons, state scrip was greatly below par, and that received for the tax could not be applied to the purpose for which the tax was levied, except by a sale of it, or an exchange for bonds or coupons, as was done. It, therefore, appears to us that the board of supervisors, as the county court was then called, had the power to direct the treasurer to make the exchange he did; and.the county court should have canceled the coupons and given him a discharge for the scrip exchanged for them.\nThe demand upon \"Wallace to bring the money into the county court was not alleged to have been made at the time of his settlement, or for the purpose of its being: . Jr Jr & counted. It is only at a settlement that the treasurer may be required to produce the money, which by such settlement is found should be in his hands, for counting. Gantt's Digest, secs. 1035, 1495.\nIt was not averred, nor was there any such proof, that Wallace had ceased, before his death, to be treasurer, and had failed to pay over the $1,499.94 to his successor in office; or that he had a successor, to whom his administrators might have paid it.\n3.--: Can pay only to successor.\n4. Administrator:\nNo perso nal j u d gment against.\nIt could have been paid over either by himself or his administrator, only to his successor in office. Aldermen, etc., v. Biscoe, 17 Ark., 417.\nThere was, then, no sufficient breach as to this money, alleged.\nA new trial should have been granted.\nIf the finding of the court had been right, the judgment was wrong. It should not have been against Wallace\u2019s administrators personally, but against them in their representative character, or as administrators.\nThe judgment of the coui\u2019t below is reversed, and the cause remanded, w\\th directions to allow the plaintiff to amend her complaint, if so advised, and for further proceedings.", "type": "majority", "author": "Harrison, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Adams, for appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Vance and Wallace, Adm\u2019rs, vs. The State, use Crittenden County.\n1. State Scrip : Receivable for court-house tax.\nState scrip issued before the passage of the act of March 28, 1871, authorizing the county board of supervisors to issue bonds for the building of court-houses, was receivable for the taxes levied to pay said bonds; and the board of supervisors could sell or exchange the scrip at its real value, for such bonds; and the county treasurer making such exchange by its direction, should be credited in his settlement with the scrip exchanged.\n2. County Treasurer: Settlements with: Exhibiting county funds.\nIt is only at a settlement that the treasurer may be required to produce the money which is found should be in his hands, for counting.\n3. Sam\u00ae : Can pay over only to successor.\nA county treasurer, or his administrator, can pay over the county funds in his hands, only to his successor in office.\n4. Administrator : Ifo personal judgment against.\nIn a suit against an administrator and others, it is error to render a personal judgment against him.\nAPPEAL from Crittenden Circuit Court.\nHou. L. L. Mack, Circuit Judge.\nAdams, for appellant." }, "file_name": "0176-01", "first_page_order": 174, "last_page_order": 178 }