Buechel v. Field

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Granting wiit of prohibition. .

Section 2947 of the statutes, enacted in 1893, creates the office of bond recorder in cities of the first class, defines his duties, and provides that he “shall be allowed for his services (in taking bail bonds) the same compensation as now allowed by law to justices of the peace in trials for breach of peace, to be paid by the party for whom the services are rendered.”

In York v. Ross, 139 Ky. 215, 129 S. W. 580, the constitutionality of the act, and the right of the recorder to charge $2.00 for taking each bail bond were…