Tarrant County v. Hollis

LATTIMORE, Justice.

Tarrant county sues appellee, ex county clerk, claiming that the latter did, without proper authority, allow himself certain credits in the conduct of the finances of his office.

The county contends that appellee should have collected a stenographer’s fee of $3 in all suits in which answers were filed in the county courts at law of Tarrant county and that appellee failed to do so in eighty-eight such suits.

Article 2075, Rev. Civ. Statutes of 1925, requires that the clerks of all courts having official reporters shall tax such a fee in each civil case where an answer is…