Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — NOT PART OF REGULAR DUTIES [ARTICLE]

NOT PART OF REGULAR DUTIES

Thursday’s Monticello Journal: Judge Vinton was over from Lafayette to sit in the case of the county commissioners vs. Jasper L. Ackerman, in which the county sought to to recover monies paid Mr. Ackerman as auditor of county for making out the assessor’s books for the various townships to the amount of $750.00, or at the rate of $150.00 per year. The contention was made that in years when the land was not to be assessed that the law prescribed it to be one of the duties of the auditor to make these books without extra compensation. There was no question but what he should make them without extra compensation when the year came for the re-ap-praisement and assessment of lands. When the case was called the attorney for the county filed a second paragraph to the complaint, alleging that it was the duty of the township assessors to prepare such books. To the complaint thus amended the defendant Ackerman answered, alleging that it 'was not the prescribed duty of either auditor or assessors to prepare such books. The plaintiff then filed demurrer to this answer and the demurrer was overruled by Judge Vinton, who delivered quite an opinion in relation to the question. The plaintiff refusing to plead further, judgment was entered up in favor of the defendant, Mr. Ackerman, the court holding that it was not the duty of either auditor or assessors to prepare the books in question unless they received extra compensation for such work.