Johnston v. Lovett
Supreme Court of Georgia
Officers. Laws. Costs. County matters. Before Judge Snead. Burke Superior Court. November Adjourned Term, 1879. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
The legislature, in 1876, authorized the establishment of a court for the county of Burke, with a solicitor whose fees were to be the same as those allowed the solicitor-general in the superior court for like services.
In 1879, an act was Passed increasing the fees of the solicitors-general of the state, allowing them the additional sum of five dollars for each trial, or plea of guilty filed in a criminal case.
The county solicitor therefore claimed that, as by the act of 1876 it was provided that he should have the same *717fees as the solicitor-general, that when the legislature…
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