Hendershott v. County of Fillmore
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Fillmore county, refusing a new trial.after a trial by Farmer, J., and judgment of $3.31 and costs ordered for plaintiff. The action was an appeal from the disallowance, by the county board, of an item of $3.15 for fees of plaintiff, as constable, for serving a subpoena on a witness for defendant in a criminal case before a justice of the peace, in which a trial by jury resulted in an acquittal.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The question in this case is the right of the respondent, a constable, to collect his fees from the appellant county for serving a subpoena upon a witness for the- defendant in a criminal case, pending in justice’s court, in which case the prosecution failed to convict. It is conceded that at common law no such right exists, but the claim is made that appellant’s liability has been fixed by the terms of Gen. St. 1878, c. 70, § 44, which, with the head-note of the editor, placed in italics by the writer hereof, reads as follows: • “Fees of prosecution paid out of county treasury, when. When…
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