Copeland v. Jefferson County
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Si-iarpe. Assumpsit by W. B. Copeland against Jefferson county, to recover certain fees alleged to have been earned as clerk of the Jefferson Criminal Court. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under the act creating such court.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
By this action appellant claimed the right to recover of the county certain fees for services rendered by him as clerk of the criminal court of Jefferson county. Some of the items claimed arose in cases where conditional judgments against defaulting defendants and their bail were made final, and executions had been returned “No property found.” Others grew out of cases in which such conditional judgments were set aside for good and sufficient cause shown.
State, for the Use of Coosa County, v. Parker, 83 Ala. 270, 3 South. 552, is the principal authority for appellant’s proposition. That case…
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