Patterson v. United States

Scofield, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Tbe claimant was a commissioner of tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe western district of North Carolina. As such be was required by the court to keep a docket, and record therein all criminal proceedings bad before him. In this *323docket be recorded the proceedings in four hundred and twenty-three cases. His fees therefor, made up according to sections 847 and 828 of the Revised Statutes, amounted to $-.

June 10, 1885, the claimant made up his account for all fees that had previously accrued, and verified it by his oath. On the same day…