Johnson v. Greiner

JOHNSON, District Judge.

Appellee, plaintiff below, filed suit in the District Court of Chaves County against appellant, the County Clerk of said county, to recover the sum of twenty five cents. The complaint alleges that appellee, on November 1, 1939, presented a chattel mortgage for filing with the usual statutory fee, and that appellant county clerk refused to file said chattel mortgage unless the appellee would pay an additional fee of twenty five cents; that appellee thereupon paid to the appellant, as such clerk, under protest, the additional sum of twenty five cents and that said sum…