Case ID: neb_49/html/0164-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ragán, C.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John G. Smith v. Franklin County.
    Filed September 16, 1896.
    No. 6660.
    Sheriffs’ Fees: Mileage. For conveying insane patients to the hospital a sheriff is entitled to mileage at the rate of five cents per mile, and not at the rate of ten cents per mile. Porter v. Merrielc Oounty, 42 Neb., 397, followed.
    Error from the district court of Franklin county. Tried below before Beall, J.
    
      A. H. Byrum, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H. Wldtmore, contra.
    
   Ragán, C.

This record presents a single question, namely: To what fees or mileage is a sheriff entitled for conveying insane patients to the hospital? This court has passed upon the question since the case at bar was tried, and held: “For conveying insane patients to the hospital a sheriff is entitled to mileage at the rate of five cents per mile, and not at the rate of ten cents per mile.” (See Porter v. Merrick County, 42 Neb., 397.) This was the view taken of the law by the district court in the case under consideration, and its judgment is

Affirmed.