Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1911 — GOOD NATURED ACTION BETWEEN COUNTY OFFICERS, [ARTICLE]

GOOD NATURED ACTION BETWEEN COUNTY OFFICERS,

Recorder Tilton and Auditor Leatherman Ask Opinion on Release of School Fund Mortgages. A friendly action that affects neither personally has been instituted between Recorder John W Tilton and Auditor James N. Leatherman. It seeks an order of the court to establish whether the auditor’s office should pay the recorder’s office for attesting marginal releases of school fund mortgages. The parties submitted to the court the proposition for an opinion, upon an agreed statement of facts, and each signed the paper submitted to the court Judge Hanley found several sections of law bearing on the matter "at issue and construed them to clearly determine that there should be no payment by the auditor for the marginal release of school fund mortgages. The court’s opinion was exhaustive, setting forth the sections of the statute that supported his opinion and stating that there would be no advantage to the co'Unty by the payment and that it would materially complicate the bookkeeping. The court’s opinion will probably be brought to the attention of the accounting board and it was to avoid a controversy with the advisory board that the opinion was requested. . ;