State v. Smedes
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the superior court of chancery, Plon. Charles Scott, chancellor. Smedes and Marshall filed their bill in the superior chancery court against the State of Mississippi, claiming $1,798 as due them, the late reporters of the decisions of the high court of errors and appeals, with interest on the same, until it was due.
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On appeal from the superior court of chancery, Plon. Charles Scott, chancellor. Smedes and Marshall filed their bill in the superior chancery court against the State of Mississippi, claiming $1,798 as due them, the late reporters of the decisions of the high court of errors and appeals, with interest on the same, until it was due. They allege in their bill that they were appointed by the court reporters some time in July, 1843, and under the statute they held their office for the period of four years from the date of their appointment. But in February, 1846, before their term of office had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice FisheR
The appellees were, about the first of July, 1843, appointed reporters of the decisions of the high court of errors and appeals, for the term of four years.
The statute of the 6th of February, 1841, Hutch. Code, 413, is as follows, to wit: “Hereafter the compensation of four dollars per page, for as many pages as are contained in one copy of each volume of the reports of the high court of errors and appeals, shall be allowed the reporter of said court, upon his depositing four hundred copies of each succeeding volume of said reports, neatly bound in calf and lettered, in the office of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Boyd's Lessee v. GravesSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
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- Hyde v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1876
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