Chicot County v. Kruse
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Chicot Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Circuit Judge. The circuit judge allowed and ordered paid a bill for $1174 for feeding jury 5.87 meals. The county court refused to pay it. Claimant applied for mandamus to compel payment, setting up allowance by circuit judge and refusal of county court, and that county scrip was worth twenty-five cents on the dollar and that meals were worth fifty cents in currency, and that the account was made aócordingly.
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APPEAL from Chicot Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Circuit Judge. The circuit judge allowed and ordered paid a bill for $1174 for feeding jury 5.87 meals. The county court refused to pay it. Claimant applied for mandamus to compel payment, setting up allowance by circuit judge and refusal of county court, and that county scrip was worth twenty-five cents on the dollar and that meals were worth fifty cents in currency, and that the account was made aócordingly. County judge answered that the claim was not verified; that the account was excessive and based on depreciated scrip, and that the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Kruse applied to the circuit court for a mandamus to. compel the county court to pay his bill of $1174 for 587'meals furnished to the jury which tried the case of State v. Maclin, on an indictment for murder. The petitioner represented that he had fed the jury under the directions of the circuit court in which said trial took place; that his account had been approved by the circuit judge and certified down as extraordinary expenses incurred in holding the court, and payment thereof had been ordered; but the county court had refused to audit or pay his claim; that the value of the meals so…
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