Fried v. Danaher

The question presented by this appeal is whether a party who has paid a jury-demand fee is entitled to a refund of the fee when his case is terminated without the services of a jury.

Section 33 of “An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this state with reference thereto” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 53, par. 51) provides in part: “In counties of the third class the clerk of the court shall be entitled to receive, in addition to other fees allowed by law, the sum of $50, as a fee for the services of a jury in every civil action at law not quasi criminal in…