County of Kossuth v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Kossuth Circuit Cowrt. The plaintiff commenced an action on the 8th day of May, 1880, to foreclose a school-fund mortgage, executed in August, 1874. In June, 1880, judgment was rendered against the defendant for $463.29, and for an attorney’s fee of $52. -At the December Term, 1880, the defendant moved the court for a re-taxation of the attorney’s fees, and the court thereupon reduced the attorney’s fees to $25. The plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Kossuth Circuit Cowrt. The plaintiff commenced an action on the 8th day of May, 1880, to foreclose a school-fund mortgage, executed in August, 1874. In June, 1880, judgment was rendered against the defendant for $463.29, and for an attorney’s fee of $52. -At the December Term, 1880, the defendant moved the court for a re-taxation of the attorney’s fees, and the court thereupon reduced the attorney’s fees to $25. The plaintiff appeals. The court certifies the question involved to be, whether a greater attorney’s fee than $25 can be taxed against defendant in the foreclosure of a…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
Section 1873 of the Code, which was in force at the time the mortgage in question was executed, provides that in suits to foreclose a school-fund mortgage “the court shall give the plaintiff, as a part of the costs, such an amount as will be a sufficient compensation for the plaintifi’s attorney in the case.”
By an act of the Eighteenth General Assembly, which took effect by publication on the 3d day of March, 1880, this section was amended by adding the following: “But in no case to exceed ten per cent on the amount for which judgment is rendered; and in no case to exceed the sum…
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