Butler v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’’ statement of the ease. The following are the facts of this case so far as they relate to the only question of law presented and determined : For services rendered to the United States in the District Court during said year 1885 the fees and emoluments of the clerk amounted to the sum of $2,062.65. For services .rendered in the Circuit Court during said year the fees and emoluments were $117.70, aggregating the sum of $2,180.35 for both courts.
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The Reporters’’ statement of the ease. The following are the facts of this case so far as they relate to the only question of law presented and determined : For services rendered to the United States in the District Court during said year 1885 the fees and emoluments of the clerk amounted to the sum of $2,062.65. For services .rendered in the Circuit Court during said year the fees and emoluments were $117.70, aggregating the sum of $2,180.35 for both courts. In the adjustment of the accounts of clerks of District and Circuit Courts the judges, prior to and during the said year 1885, in…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
Plaintiff holds the dual office of clerk of the Circuit Court and clerk of the District Court of the United States for the district of Indiana, and,, while other questions were raised, the course of the argument has reduced the issue to one point of law, to wit, against which court, both being in session at the same time, he is to charge his per diem allowance. The clerk ha's charged it against the District Court, for the reason, probably, that the receipts in that court are small enough to enable him to obtain from them the full amount of his compensation. To this the accounting officers…
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