Case ID: johns_20/html/0274-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Boyce and others against Thompson and others.
    Where the titles of several causes, in names are different, are in-eluded in the same affidavit, cíerk^on entenng the deiaiiitSj is entitied to his fees in each cause.
    NOTICE of the rule to plead, m this and five other . , . . causes, in which the names of the parties were different, directed to each of the defendants respectively, and an aflidavit of the service entitled in all the causes, was filed, and ... , a default thereupon entered m each cause, by the clerk. A question arose, which was submitted to the Court, whether the clerk was entitled to charge fees for six affidavits, or for one only r
   Per Curiam.

The clerk is entitled to charge for reading and filing an affidavit in each cause. The parties here are different. In Jackson, ex dem. Burnett, v. Keller, all the causes were at the suit of the same lessor of the plaintiff. Besides, the clerk, in this case, must enter a default, founded on an affidavit, in each cause.