Commonwealth v. Field
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Bichmond, rendered 6th February, 1886, in an action of .assumpsit by the Commonwealth of Virginia against James G. Field, to recover $1,406 paid him illegally by the then auditor of public accounts, S. B. Allen. The case was heard without a jury, all questions of law and fact being submitted to the court, which rendered judgment against the Commonwealth, which was thereupon brought to this court by writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The certificate of agreed facts shows the case to be as follows :
In May, 1888, James G-. Field, late Attorney-General of Virginia, whose term of office had expired on the 31st day of December, 1881, applied to the Auditor of Public Accounts for $1,498 for fees alleged to be due him in cases prosecuted during his term in his official capacity, and which had not been paid him. These fees had not been collected during the term of office of the said James G. Field, because the fifth section of chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia, by which they were once authorized, had been repealed before the…
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