Crocker v. Supervisors of Brown County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case came on for trial in the circuit court upon the appeal of plaintiff from the disallowance of a portion of his claim presented to the county board of supervisors. Plaintiff was sheriff of Brown county, and in that capacity received a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with larceny.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case came on for trial in the circuit court upon the appeal of plaintiff from the disallowance of a portion of his claim presented to the county board of supervisors. Plaintiff was sheriff of Brown county, and in that capacity received a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with larceny. He presented his account for services in making the arrest to tbe board of supervisors, charging, in addition to the ordinary fees for service and mileage, various sums for use of teams, traveling expenses, railroad fare, telegraphing and “necessary…
1Opinion of the Court
Dixon, C. J\
Officers take their offices cum onere, and. services required of them by law for which they are not specifically paid, must be considered compensated by the fees allowed for other services. This principle is well settled, as will be seen by examination of the several authorities cited to this point by counsel for the defendant. But in this case the plaintiff was not without specific compensation in the form of fees expressly given by statute for the services rendered by him, and for the performance of which he has charged and obtained judgment against the county for several sums…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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