6 Ga. App. 568 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
L. J. Thomas sued Laurens County for $100 as his salary as county physician for the months of January and February, 1909. He alleged that his contract with the county was in writing and entered on the minutes of the board of county commissioners, being contained in the following entrjr, which appeared as a part of the proceedings of the October, 1908, session of the board: “It being the month to elect the different officers for another year, 1909, the same salary to be rised as follows: M. H. Blackshear, county attorney, $100 per annum; L. J. Thomas, county physician, $50 per month.— [Signed] Wm. C. Solomon, secretary; E. R. Orr, chairman.” The county demurred to the petition, on the ground that it did not set out a cause of action or show a valid contract with the county.
In this State all contracts made by county authorities on behalf of the county must be in writing and entered on the minutes. Political Code of 1895, §343. Construing this section of the code, the Supreme Court, in the case of Spalding County v. Chamberlin, 130 Ga. 649 (61 S. E. 533), said: “All the material terms of a contract entered into in behalf of a county by the county authorities