State ex rel. Hopkins v. Justices of Buchanan County Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Petition for Mandamus. The petition was as follows : Your petitioner, P. G. Hopkins, respectfully represents that he is clerk of the Circuit Court of Buchanan county, State of Missouri, duly elected, qualified, and acting as such, and was at the time of the rendering of the services mentioned in the fee-bill hereinafter set forth; that at the-term of thetfircuit Court within and for the county aforesaid, H. W. Smith was by the grand jury indicted for selling whiskey without…
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Petition for Mandamus. The petition was as follows : Your petitioner, P. G. Hopkins, respectfully represents that he is clerk of the Circuit Court of Buchanan county, State of Missouri, duly elected, qualified, and acting as such, and was at the time of the rendering of the services mentioned in the fee-bill hereinafter set forth; that at the-term of thetfircuit Court within and for the county aforesaid, H. W. Smith was by the grand jury indicted for selling whiskey without a licence; that said indictment was at said term duly returned into court endorsed “a true bill” and signed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtFagg, Judge
This is a petition for a mandamus requiring Philemon Bliss, George Schriber, and Monroe Boyer, justices of the County Court of Buchanan county to allow and order the *256payment of a bill of costs, alleged to be due the petitioner as the clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, under and by virtue of the provisions of chap. 219 of G-eneral Statutes of Missouri. The case is presented here upon an agreed statement of facts, and requires but a brief consideration.
It is claimed that the liability of the county in this instance is fixed by the second section of that chapter: “ The county in which…
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