Morgan v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found by the court in the case of Morgan: I. The claimant, J. Willard Morgan, was a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey from May 2, 1881, to and including December 19, 1885. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found by the court in the case of Morgan: I. The claimant, J. Willard Morgan, was a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey from May 2, 1881, to and including December 19, 1885. II. The Circuit Court of the United States for such district, in compliance with the request of the Attnrney-General, made an order requiring, among other things, that each of the commissioners of said court should keep a docket, in which he should enter, on the day the transaction should occur, the…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
These actions are brought by United States commissioners to recover docket fees under the Revised Statutes (§§ 828, 847) in proceedings before them as sitting magistrates. Some of these fees were for docket entries in ordinary cases, and are not contestedthe remainder were for docket entries in internal-revenue cases, and they form the subject of controversy. There is no dispute as to the service having been rendered, and it is now settled that in ordinary cases a commissioner is entitled to docket fees. (Wallace’s Case, 20 C. Cls. R., 273; 116 U. S. R., 398.) The right to these particular…
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