75 Mo. 688 | Mo. | 1882
This suit was instituted in the Buchanan circuit court and was tried and determined upon the following agreed statement of facts :
That during 1874 and 1875, plaintiff was sheriff of Buchanan county, Missouri; that on October 5th, 1872,. Armstrong Beattie and Thomas B. Weakley recovered a judgment in the circuit court of said county, for $29,418.20 against Frederick W. Smith, judgment bearing ten per cent; that on September 26th, 1874, an execution was or
Plaintiff claims that he is entitled to half the regular •commission under section 13, Wagner’s Statutes, 625, which provides that sheriffs shall be allowed a commission for receiving and paying moneys on execution or other process u where * * lands or goods have been levied on, advertised and. sold, three per cent on $500, and two per cent on all sums above $500, and half of these sums where the money is paid to the sheriff without a levy, or where the lands or goods levied on shall not be sold, and the
The conditions on which the sheriff was entitled to the commission claimed had occurred, and we are all of opinion that the circuit court properly construed the statute, and drew the proper deductions from the agreed facts. The judgment is affirmed.