Cutter v. Howe
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal by the defendants from the taxation of costs by the clerk of the Superior Court, in an action of contract. The writ was dated December 22,1874, and was returnable on the first Tuesday of January, 1875, and directed the officer “to attach the goods or estate of Henry F. Howe, Charlotte Howe and Charlotte A. Lyman, all of Boston,” “ to the value of five hundred dollars.”
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Appeal by the defendants from the taxation of costs by the clerk of the Superior Court, in an action of contract. The writ was dated December 22,1874, and was returnable on the first Tuesday of January, 1875, and directed the officer “to attach the goods or estate of Henry F. Howe, Charlotte Howe and Charlotte A. Lyman, all of Boston,” “ to the value of five hundred dollars.” The officer’s return upon the writ was as follows; “ December 22, 1874. By virtue hereof I attached certain goods and chat-' tels at No. 7 Bulfinch Place as the property of the within named Charlotte Howe and Charlotte…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
The fees to which sheriffs and their deputies are entitled for service of processes are fixed by law. Gen. Sts. c. 157, § 4, as amended by St. 1865, e. 101. By the St. of 1865, c. 101, the fees of sheriffs and their deputies are raised substantially one hundred per cent, above the previously established rates. It provides that the fee shall be “ for the service of a copias, or of an attachment with summons, fifty cents for each defendant on whom it is served; and if the officer, by the direction of the plaintiff or his attorney, makes a special service of such writ, either by attaching…
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