Summers v. City of Louisville

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hobson

Affirming.

*254Louis Summers is the clerk of the Jefferson circuit court. There was a suit pending in the court, of the city of Louisville v. C. N. Keys, et al., No. 56404, in which the city sought to recover of the defendant certain taxes. The city attorney wished to take the'papers of the case to his office to make a settlement with the defendants. The clerk refused to allow him to have the papers. Thereupon he obtained from the court a rule on the clerk to show cause why he refused to allow the city attorney to withdraw the papers of the action from his…