Case: James Erwin, use of James Shelby, plaintiff, vs. Ebenezer Cummins, as administrator of William Cummins, deceased, defendant
Abbreviation: Erwin ex rel. Shelby v. Cummins
Decision Date: 1855-04
Docket Number: 
Citation: 1 Ark. Terr. Rep. 703
Volume: 1
Reporter: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, from 1820 to 1836
Court: Arkansas Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Parties: James Erwin, use of James Shelby, plaintiff, vs. Ebenezer Cummins, as administrator of William Cummins, deceased, defendant.
Judges: 
Pages: 703–704

Head Matter:
James Erwin, use of James Shelby, plaintiff, vs. Ebenezer Cummins, as administrator of William Cummins, deceased, defendant.
1. Where property is not sold, nor money made nor received by the marshal on execution, he is not entitled to half commissions.
2. Taxation of costs reformed on motion.
April, 1855.
Motion to retax costs, determined before Hon. Daniel Ringo, district judge, holding the Circuit Court; absent Daniel, J.
P. Trapnatt, for motion.

Opinion:
Ringo, J.
There was no legal authority for any charge of half commissions by the marshal when no property was sold or money made or received by him on execution, at any time from the 26th of February to the second Monday of April, 1849. Therefore the item of one hundred and two dollars and eighty cents charged by and taxed in favor of the marshal, on the execution, as half commissions on ten thousand and eighty dollars, the amount of the judgment and interest specified in the execution, is improperly and illegally charged and taxed as costs, and must be disallowed and stricken from the bill of costs, and the taxation thereof reformed in that respect.
Ordered accordingly.