Ryce v. Mitchell County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mitchell Circxdt Court. This action was originally brought before a justice of the peace. Plaintiff is an attorney at law, and he brought the action to recover from the county the sum of $100, as compensation for his services in defending a person who was indicted and tried in the district court of the county for a felony.
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Appeal from Mitchell Circxdt Court. This action was originally brought before a justice of the peace. Plaintiff is an attorney at law, and he brought the action to recover from the county the sum of $100, as compensation for his services in defending a person who was indicted and tried in the district court of the county for a felony. Plaintiff was appointed by the district court to defend the party, and the services for which he seeks to recover compensation were rendered in an appeal to this court from a judgment of conviction by the district court. The justice sustained a demurrer to…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
It was alleged in plaintiff’s petition that he had presented his account for the services in question to the board of supervisors of the county, and that the board had refused to allow the same. Attached to the petition as' an exhibit was a copy of said account, together with the affidavit of plaintiff which accompanied the account when it was presented to the board of supervisors. The ground of the demurrer to the petition in effect was that this affidavit was not sufficient under the statute, and for that reason plaintiff was not entitled to have the account allowed by the board of…
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