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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,609.
    UNITED STATES v. LITTLE.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 411.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1807.
    Constable—Pees.
    The constable is not entitled to any fee on an execution not served.
    Indictment [against Israel Little] for taking illegal fees. The question was whether the constables are entitled to fifty cents for every execution returned, but not served. The act of congress says for every execution served and returned.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief J udge.]
    
   THE COUET

(nem. con.) decided that the constables were not entitled to any fee upon an execution unless it be served and returned.