Legal Opinion
Hegele v. Polk County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 15, 1894PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. Action at law to recover of the county certain fees said to have been earned by plaintiff’s assignors as justice and constable and watchman of certain property taken under a search warrant. Prom a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The amount in controversy being less than one hundred dollars, the trial judge made the following certificate:
“In September, 1892, an information was filed in the office of one P. W. Dodson, a justice of the peace of Des Moines township, in said county, alleging that intoxicating liquors were, kept at a place therein described, in violation of law, upon which a search warrant was issued by said J. P., and placed in the hands of W. H. H. Garrett, constable, who seized thereunder one hundred and seventy-nine cases and two hundred and seventy-five kegs of beer. At the proper time, the Oberman…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Labour v. Polk CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
3Cited by2 opinions
- Kemble v. WeaverSupreme Court of Iowa · 1925
- McGuire v. Iowa CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1907