Pulling v. Board of Supervisors of Columbia County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was a proceeding under chapter ten of the Revised Statutes, allowing an appeal from the decision of the County Board of Supervisors to the Circuit Court of the same county.
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This was a proceeding under chapter ten of the Revised Statutes, allowing an appeal from the decision of the County Board of Supervisors to the Circuit Court of the same county. The plaintiff in error presented to the Board of Supervisors of Columbia county, his account of two hundred dollars against the said county for services as counsel and district attorney specially appointed by the Circuit Court of said county to conduct the prosecution of Edward Leahey, indicted for murder. The said board afterwards passed a resolution allowing the sum of one .hundred dollars on the account. The…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Crawford, J.
We think the judgment of the Circuit Court in this case ought not to be disturbed. Mr. Pulling, who is á counsellor of this court, was appointed by his honor Judge Lara-bee, presiding at the Columbia Circuit, to prosecute a very important criminal case, the prosecuting officer of Columbia county having been unable to act on behalf of the State in that case. The trial was a protracted one, and Mr, Pulling rendered important professional services therein, for which he presented his account against the county of Columbia, to the Board of Supervisors of that county, for…
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