State ex rel. Commissioners of Hamilton County v. Ream

This is an application on notice for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, who is county judge of Hamilton county, to report his fees to the county commissioners as required by “ An act to regulate the fees of county judges, county clerks, sheriffs, and county treasurers,” approved Feb. 15, 1877. The defendant was elected bounty judge in 1881 and re-elected in 1883. He seems to have reported the fees during his first term of office, but at the commencement of the second he discovered objections to the statute and refused to report further *682unless compelled to do so. The…