Case Name: Hand v. The Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe County
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1866-05
Citations: 26 Ind. 179
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hand v. The Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 179–180

Head Matter:
Hand v. The Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe County.
Eecoedek's Fees.—Entkv Book.—The recorder is not entitled to any allowance from the county for keeping up the entry hook. The entry required hy law upon that hook is a part of the labor of recording the instrument, and is compensated hy the fee allowed for that service.
APPEAL from the Tippecanoe Circuit Court.

Opinion:
Bay, J.
The appellant, who was recorder of Tippecanoe county, filed a claim against the county with the board of commissioners, "for keeping up the entry book from March 2, 1863, to December 1, 1865." The claim was hot allowed, and, upon appeal to the Circuit Court, a demurrer was sustained to the complaint.
It is insisted that the second section of the act of May 31,1852, providing for the election, and prescribing certain duties of the recorder, requires the county commissioners to allow this claim. That section requires the recorder, at the expense of the county, to procure sufficient large and well bound books, &c., and provides that "he shall also keep a book in which he shall make an entry, upon the reception of any such instrument, of the date thereof," &c. The keeping of this entry book had already been provided for by the 29th section of the act of May 6,1852, " concerning real property, and the alienation thereof," which also provided that the deed or instrument should be deemed l'ecorded at the time so noted.
G. O. Belm and A. 0. Belm, for appellant.
J. M. 'La Rue, for appellee.
It is therefore but reasonable to regard this entxy as included in the labor of recording, and as coxnpensated for by the fee elsewhere allowed.
The judgment is affinned, with costs.