Duclos v. Harris County

This is a suit by appellee to recover of appellant the sum of $2,031.60, claimed by appellee as fees of office collected and retained by appellant as district clerk of Harris county in excess of the amount allowed Mm by the fee bill statute.

Appellant’s answer admits the collection and retention by him of fees of office, amounting to $2,708.80, for the years 1923-1924 in excess of the maximum amount allowed him under the fee bill statute, but avers that such fees were all received in tax suits brought by the city of Houston and other municipal corporations in Harris county, and that under the…