Smith v. Mayor of Shreveport

This is a suit instituted upon a number of Clerk’s certificates of compensation due to witnesses for attendance in court. Some of those certificates were made in favor of the plaintiff, and others in favor of persons of the name of Holmes and Hogue, of whom the plaintiff is assignee. The petitioner alleges that he and the other two persons named, were witnesses in certain suits to which the Mayor and Trustees of Shreveport were parties; that they were summoned in said suits at the instance of the Mayor and Trustees ; that the suits have been decided, and the defendants are liable to pay the…