United States v. Allred
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a claim for fees as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Appended to the petition was a statement of the items of the petitioner’s account.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a claim for fees as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Appended to the petition was a statement of the items of the petitioner’s account. The Court of Claims, upon the evidence, found the facts to be as follows: 1. The claimant, John M. Allred, was a commissioner of the Circuit .Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia from May 28,1889, to March 31, 1892, duly qualified and acting. 2. During said period he made up his accounts for services, duly verified, and presented the same to the United…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
Error is assigned only to the allowance of items 1, 2; 6, 8, 9, and 10 of the third finding. '
1. All these items, except the ninth, relate to fees claimed to be authorized by a rule of the court requiring the service to be performed, and, therefore, allowable within the case of United States v. Van Duzee, 140 U. S. 169, 173. In that case we held, in reference to clerks’ fees, that an order of court réquiring' a service to be performed was sufficient authority as between the clerk and. the government for the…
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