Farr v. Seaward
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from JacJcson District Qourt. — Hon. C. M. Watermar, Judge. This is an action at law against B. W. Seaward, Jr., clerk of the district conrt of Jackson county, and against the county and its board of supervisors and treasurer, to recover judgment for certain attorneys’ fees which the plaintiff claims belong to him, and which it is alleged the said Seaward wrongf ully paid over to the treasurer on the order of said board.
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Appeal from JacJcson District Qourt. — Hon. C. M. Watermar, Judge. This is an action at law against B. W. Seaward, Jr., clerk of the district conrt of Jackson county, and against the county and its board of supervisors and treasurer, to recover judgment for certain attorneys’ fees which the plaintiff claims belong to him, and which it is alleged the said Seaward wrongf ully paid over to the treasurer on the order of said board. There was a motion filed for a more specific statement of the cause of action, which was overruled. Afterwards demurrers to the petition were filed. The demurrers were…
1Opinion of the CourtBotiirock, J.
I. It appears from the averments of the petition that the plaintiff was county attorney of sanee: injunction: attorney fees: county attorney. i. liquor nui-Jackson county, and that he commenced and prosecuted to decree a number of injunction suits against the keepers of saloons. The court, in entering the decree, taxed an attorney’s fee of forty dollars in each case. These fees were paid by the defendants to B. W. Seaward, Jr., clerk, the same as the other costs. The plaintiff demanded the payment of the attorneys’ fees by the clerk to him. Seaward refused to make payment. The board of…
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