Reeve Brothers v. Allen

Reeve Brothers filed a petition in the city court of Americus in which, they prayed for a rule against H. B. Allen, clerk of that court, to show cause why he should not refund to the plaintiffs the sum of $58, which the plaintiffs had paid under protest to the clerk as,being the amount representing the cost of recording upon the writ book of that court the pleadings in four suits against the plaintiffs, which suits, at the instance of the plaintiffs as alleged non-residents, had been, by order of the city court of Americus, transferred to the Federal court, and the proceedings in the city…