Bundy v. United States

Biohardson, Oh. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The claimant, a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia, appointed under the act of June 7, 1878, chapter 162 (1 Supp. Bev. Stat., 336), was, in the year 1883, designated by a justice of the Supreme Court of the District to discharge the duties of the judge of the police court in his absence, under the provisions of section 1047 of theBevised Statutes of the District of Columbia.

He discharged the duties by virtue of said designation forty-one days during that year, for which he claims that, under section 1048 of said statutes,…