State Ex Rel. Cowles v. Butts

— Upon motion to quash the alternative writ of mandamus herein, the contention is made that where an attorney at law deposited with a deceased Clerk of the Circuit Court during his lifetime certain funds as an advance payment to the Clerk in the nature of a “court costs deposit” to compensate the Clerk for services rendered, and to be rendered by him in the future in his official capacity, in pending litigated cases, that the unearned balance standing to the account of the attorney at the death of: the Clerk becomes solely an obligation of the Clerk personally, and not an obligation of the…