Keirsey v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
' JError from, Labette District Court. Action by Keirsey against The Board of Commissioners of Labette County, to recover certain fees.
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' JError from, Labette District Court. Action by Keirsey against The Board of Commissioners of Labette County, to recover certain fees. Trial by the court, at the February Term, 1883, when the court made findings of fact as follows, to wit: “1. The court finds that this-action is an appeal from certain orders of the board of county commissioners, disallowing a portion of certain fees claimed upon the part of E. D. Keirsey, as justice of the peace of said county, in his own behalf, and constable’s fees taxed in certain criminal cases as follows; and that said Keirsey is the assignee of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The question in this case is whether the last proviso in § 13, ch. 39, Comp. Laws of 1879, is repealed by ch. 108, Laws of 1881. The district court held that it was not. The proviso reads as follows: “And provided further, That no more than ten dollars costs, in criminal cases, exclusive of witnesses’, county attorney’s and jury fees, shall be charged in any case.”
Section 19 of the same chapter is:
“In all cases where the fees prescribed by this act, in criminal cases, for the sheriff and clerk, are not paid by the defendant or the…
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