Wilhelm v. Fayette County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 9, July T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 133, in favor of plaintiff on case stated. Case stated to determine the validity of fees claimed by sheriff. The case stated was in part as follows: “ William H. Wilhelm, the plaintiff, is the sheriff of defendant county, and has been since the 1st Monday of January, 1893, and as such officer he is the keeper of the common jail of said county.
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Appeal, No. 9, July T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., Dec. T., 1894, No. 133, in favor of plaintiff on case stated. Case stated to determine the validity of fees claimed by sheriff. The case stated was in part as follows: “ William H. Wilhelm, the plaintiff, is the sheriff of defendant county, and has been since the 1st Monday of January, 1893, and as such officer he is the keeper of the common jail of said county. As such sheriff and keeper of the common jail he did on the 4th day of April, 1894, receive into his custody and commit to said jail ninety-five persons…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This case stated embodies all the facts upon which the judgment of the court below is based. As sheriff of the county and keeper of the common jail, the plaintiff received into his custody ninety-five persons charged before a justice of the peace, in one information, with the murder of Joseph H. Paddock and duly committed for trial by said justice, as evidenced by eighteen separate commitments containing from three to eight names each. The sole question was whether plaintiff was entitled to a commitment fee of fifty cents for each of the ninety-five persons thus committed and…
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