Board of Supervisors v. Beveridge
Illinois Supreme Court
This case was presented to the Supreme Court, upon an agreed case, showing, that the defendant in error was clerk of the Circuit Court of De Kalb county; that during his clerkship he had furnished for the necessary use of the Circuit clerk’s office, fuel and lights, and that thirty-six dollars and forty-eight cents would be a just allowance therefor; that the county authorities denied that they were legally bound to pay this or any other sum.
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This case was presented to the Supreme Court, upon an agreed case, showing, that the defendant in error was clerk of the Circuit Court of De Kalb county; that during his clerkship he had furnished for the necessary use of the Circuit clerk’s office, fuel and lights, and that thirty-six dollars and forty-eight cents would be a just allowance therefor; that the county authorities denied that they were legally bound to pay this or any other sum. The case was submitted to J. G-. Wilson, Judge of the Circuit Court, at October term, 1854, who gave judgment for the clerk against the county.
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
The only question in this case is, whether it is the duty of the county to furnish lights and fuel for the office of the clerk of the circuit court ? We are of opinion that it is the duty of the county to do so. It is the duty of each county to pay the expenses of the local administration of justice within the county, and this duty arises as well from our general system of county organization, as from express statutes, defining the duties of counties on this particular subject. Indeed, but a part of these duties which have always been recognized as devolving upon the counties, have…
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