Locke v. Speed

Joseph Locke in his life-time was a coroner in the county of Wayne, and, as such officer, held an inquest on the dead body of a stranger, a non-resident of the State, whose name was Andrew J. Levy, on the thirteenth day of April, 1885, at the house of correction in the city of Detroit.

Mrs. Locke, after the death of her husband, and as the administratrix of his estate, presented an itemized bill for the expenses, services, and usual disbursements in such cases, to Judge Speed, of the Wayne circuit, for allowance in pursuance of chapter 336, How. Stat. The petition for allowance, and…