Legal Opinion
Comm'rs of Johnson County v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided January 15, 1878PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Error from Johnson District Court. At the March Term 1876 of the district court, Wilson recovered a judgment against the Board of County Commissioners for $28.05 — of which $26.55 was for fees earned in a certain criminal case tried before him as a justice of the peace, and $1.50 was for fees as a witness on the part of the state in the same ease upon the trial thereof in the district court. The Board of County Comm’rs brings the case here.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts in the court below. From this agreed statement the following facts appear:
“Wilson, the defendant in error, was an acting justice of the peace in the city of Olathe, Johnson county, in 1874. On 23d June 1874, one Gurnee was arrested and brought before said Wilson for trial. The offense with which Gurnee was charged was one which Wilson as justice of the peace had jurisdiction to try. On the 30th of June Wilson proceeded to try the case, which resulted in the conviction of Gurnee, who…
2Cited by3 opinions
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