Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

8 U.S. 258

Ex parte Lewis

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 1, 1808

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1808-02

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1909

1 district ·

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1808-02

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

¶1Compensation of jwrors.

¶2The jurors in civil cases, attending the circuit of the United States, for the Pennsylvania district, are entitled to one dollar and twenty-five cents each, for each day’s attendance.

¶3In the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania, at November term, 1806, a motion was made by Rawle, in behalf of Lewis and others (the jurors in civil cases who had attended the court at that session), that the marshal be ordered to pay each of the jurors one dollar and twenty-five cents for each day’s attendance;

¶4But the judges of that court being divided in opinion upon the question, it was certified to this court.

¶5This Court ordered it to be certified, that the jurors were entitled to the fee of one dollar and twenty-five cents per Mem for their attendance.

/8/us/258 · .json · Public domain