Caldwell v. Chambers

This was a suit brought against H. W. Chambers, clerk of the municipal court of Atlanta, Fulton section, to recover a penalty of $50, for “taking [in a certain case] a greater fee than the law allows.” The suit was brought' under the act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 18, 1792, which imposed such a penalty on certain court officials named therein for taking or demanding “any greater fee than the laAV allows.” The act is substantially embodied in sections 24-302, 24-303, 24-304, and 24-305 of the Code of 1933; and the only officials named in the act as being subject to…