United States v. Julian
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a petition for fees, as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The claim included a large number of items, but the only point in controversy before this court is, whether petitioner ■was entitled to fifteen cents for each jurat or certificate, appended to depositions taken by him as such commissioner.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a petition for fees, as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The claim included a large number of items, but the only point in controversy before this court is, whether petitioner ■was entitled to fifteen cents for each jurat or certificate, appended to depositions taken by him as such commissioner. The total number of jurats so-appended was 238, and the total charge therefor was $35;70. The Court of Claims allowed this item, and the government appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.- Jcstioe Brown
delivered the opinion of the court. ■
This case .involves the construction of that paragraph of Rev. Stat., § 847, which allows to commissioners “for issuing any warrant or writ, and for any other service, the same compensation as is allowed to clerks for like services; ” and the paragraphs of § 828, which allow to clerks “ for taking and certifying depositions .to file, twenty cents for each folio of one hundred words; ” and “ for making any record, certificate, return or report, for each folio, fifteen cents.”
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