Case ID: nh_58/html/0305-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Doe, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wardwell v. Jones, & County of Rockingham, Tr.
    Under the General Statutes, the fees of a juror due him from the county are attachable on trustee process.
    Foreign Attachment. The court reserved the question, whether the county is chargeable as trustee for juror’s fees due the defendant.
    
      Rollins, for the plaintiff.
    
      Frink, for the defendant and the trustee.
   Doe, C. J.

Juror’s fees, due the defendant from the county, are money, rights, or credits of the defendant in the possession of the county, within the meaning of Gen. St., c. 230, s. 28, and the county is chargeable therefor. Whidden v. Drake, 5 N. H. 13; Woodbridge v. Morse, 5 N. H. 519; Wendell v. Pierce, 13 N. H. 502; Palmer v. Noyes, 45 N. H. 174; Fogg v. Worster, 49 N. H. 503.

Case discharged.

Bingham, J., did not sit.