Board of Commissioners v. McGregor
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Clay Circuit Court; Lewis F. Tilley, Special Judge. Action by Samuel M. McGregor against the Board of Commissioners of the County of Clay. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Transferred from Appellate Court (see 42 Ind. App. 688); under §1392 Burns 1908, cl. 1, Acts 1907, p. 237, §1.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Appellee recovered a judgment against appellant for services rendered as an attorney in the prosecution of a criminal case in pursuance of an order of the Clay Circuit Court.
The errors assigned are (1) in overruling appellant’s demurrer to the amended complaint, and (2) in sustaining appellee’s demurrer to the second paragraph of answer.
The complaint alleges .that on January —, 1906, the judge of the Clay Circuit Court appointed appellee to assist in the prosecution of the case of the State v. Jesse Sluder, on a charge of murder, then pending in said court; that an emergency existed for the…
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