Davenport v. County of Hennepin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action (on appeal to the district court for Hennepin county from the disallowance of plaintiff’s claim by the board of county com.missioners,) was tried without a jury by Lochren, J., who filed a decision and order for judgment in favor of defendant. From this order the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The defendant board having refused to allow a per diem compensation to plaintiff for services rendered by his deputies while he was clerk of the district court, in copying the list of delinquent taxes upon real estate in his county for the year 1880, and in entering judgment against each parcel mentioned in said list, as required bylaw, he .appealed to the district court, claiming three dollars a day for the time actually consumed by his deputies in doing said work. There was no conter^ion over the facts in the trial court, which directed judgment for defendant board. The statute which we are…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Armstrong v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1879
3Cited by1 opinion
- O'Connor v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895