United States v. Kurtz
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a petition by Kurtz, who was clerk and commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Eástern District of Wisconsin, for fees alleged to have been earned by him in both capacities. The case resulted in the allowance of a large number of disputed items, and a final judgment in favor of the petitioner in the sum of $165.10. The government appealed, and assigned as error the allowance of certain items specifically set forth, in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
1. The first assignment of error is taken to the allowance to the petitioner of clerk’s fees for recording in- the final record books the entries and proceedings in various criminal cases, consisting of the indictment or information, warrants, recognizances, judgments and other proceedings, as' required by rule of court, at fifteen cents per folio. It seems that these records were made by him in compliance with a rule of the Circuit Court adopted. November 3, 1890, requiring the clerk to keep a criminal final récord book, in which should be recorded “the indictment or information, and all…
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