Supervisors of Crawford County v. Le Clerc
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the County Court of Crawford County. This was an action of assumpsit against The Board of Supervisors of Crawford County for services rendered by Le Clerc, the plaintiff, as an interpreter for parties litigant in that court and in the circuit court for that county, claiming in all the sum of $230. At the trial it appeared that Le Olere had been appointed interpreter by the circuit and county courts for that county, at various terms of the court, and his proofs…
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ERROR to the County Court of Crawford County. This was an action of assumpsit against The Board of Supervisors of Crawford County for services rendered by Le Clerc, the plaintiff, as an interpreter for parties litigant in that court and in the circuit court for that county, claiming in all the sum of $230. At the trial it appeared that Le Olere had been appointed interpreter by the circuit and county courts for that county, at various terms of the court, and his proofs consisted of various certificates of the clerks and judges, that he had attended as an interpreter. The court charged the…
1Opinion of the Court
KwaWLTOír, J.
This was an action of assumpsit brought by Le Clerc against The Board of Supervisors of Crawford County, for services rendered as interpreter in the circuit and county courts of that county, claiming $230 therefor. The defendant in error recovered $116, the amount found by the jury.
The principal question, and the only one necessary to be decided in this case, arises upon the first and second instructions asked by the plaintiff below (defendant here), and given by the court to the jury, to wit: “1st. That the circuit and county courts have authority to employ an interpreter, if…
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