State v. . Norris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment, which was contended by the State could be sustained against the defendants County Commissioners, either under section 711 or section 1090 of The Code or at common law, for charging for mileage contrary to law, and causing their accounts to be audited and paid, tried at September Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Wake County before Bryan, J. The jury returned a special verdict as follows: “ It is admitted that the defendants ordered the Clerk of the…
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This was an indictment, which was contended by the State could be sustained against the defendants County Commissioners, either under section 711 or section 1090 of The Code or at common law, for charging for mileage contrary to law, and causing their accounts to be audited and paid, tried at September Term, 1892, of the Superior Court of Wake County before Bryan, J. The jury returned a special verdict as follows: “ It is admitted that the defendants ordered the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners to issue an order to Langdon Dowd, the defendant above named as one of the members of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The statute (The Gode, § 3747) provides that, in addition to their per diem, jurors shall receive “not exceeding five cents,” etc., “ per mile of travel going to and returning from Court.” Substantially the same provisions, in so far as the language fixes the amount of mileage, were embodied in previous laws (Rev. Code, ch. 28, sec. 15; Rev. Stats., ch. 28, sec. 21), and had been construed uniformly to allow compensation for the distance traveled by the usual route from a juror’s home to reach the courthouse on the first day of the term, and for the same distance in returning at the…
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- State v. . PritchardSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- State v. . HawkinsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
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