Wallace v. Board of Commissioners

The appellant filed his complaint in the common pleas against the appellee, alleging, in substance, that he was clerk of the Marion Circuit Court, and as such, since *384the taking effect of the act of the General Assembly of this State of Indiana, entitled “An act regulating the fees, salaries, and duties of certain officers therein named, and prescribing penalties for the violation of its provisions,” approved February 21st, 1871, Acts of 1871 p. 25, he had collected fees and charges pertaining to his said office in the sum of one hundred dollars; that the defendant had demanded and required of…