State ex rel. Clinton County v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

Martin, C.

The controversy in this case is about costs, and rises from a motion to re-tax costs in favor of the plaintiff’s attorney, which was filed on the 26th day of April, 1879. It appears from the record that at the December term, 1876, of the Clinton circuit court, the plaintiff in a *576suit bearing the name and style of the parties to this record, recovered judgment against the defendant in the sum of $6,390, for back taxes due from defendant for the years 1873 and 1874, and for costs of suit. By the session acts of 1875 it is provided that the “ prosecuting attorney instituting and…