Case ID: la-ann_25/html/0301-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wyuy, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 4612.
    John Burk, Clerk of the Superior District Court, v. City of New Orleans et als.
    Where the plaintiff sued for the value of Ms services in transferring from the other district conrts-and docketing in the Superior District Court some fifteen hundred tax suits, and obtained judgment in his favor for the sum of fifty cents per suit on all of said suits;
    Held — That the extra compensation allowed the clerk in this instance was not authorized hy law.
    APPEAL from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. MawTcins, J.
    
      JBranlc N. Sutler, for plaintiff and appellee. George 8.
    
    
      Lacey, city attorney, for defendants and appellants.
    Justices concurring: Ludeling, Taliaferro, Howell, Wyly, Morgan.
   Wyuy, J.

The plaintiff sued for the value of his services in transferring from the other district courts and docketing in the Superior District Court some fifteen hundred tax suits, and from a judgment in Ms favor for the sum of fifty cents per suit on all of. said suits.

The city of New Orleans has appealed.

By section 21 act No. 48 of the acts of 1871, it is provided that clerks of court shall be allowed and permitted to charge two dollars for all proceedings had ” in a tax suit.

The extra compensation allowed the clerk in this instance is not authorized by law.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment herein be reversed, and that there be judgment for defendants, plaintiff paying costs of both courts.