Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Can Draw But One Day’s Pay. [ARTICLE]

Can Draw But One Day’s Pay.

It has been the custom of some circuit court judges to allow jurors pay for two days’ services where night sessions of court were held or where they were out at night in deciding a case. Judge Thompson has always held that under the law a juror could be allowed only one day’s pay, even thougji he served both day and night. The Judge is upheld in his refusal to allow additional pay for such service in a decision of the supreme court handed down last Tuesday. The case de6ided was taken up from the Deleware circuit court, where extra compensation had been allowed. The decision is handed down by Judge Dowling and holds: 1. The fee of $2 per day by sec. 1,394, R. S., 1881, to a juror while in actual attendance at court is compensation for all services performed within a calander day of twenty-four hours. 2. The fact that the juror is only on duty ten minutes in the day, or that he is on duty day and night by reason of the-jury not being permitted to separate neither decreases nor increases the amount of this per diem allowance to which he is entitled. 3. The court has no power to increase or diminish the fees of a juror, but only to find the number of days he was in attendance and the miles traveled, and an allowance of an extra day for each night the juror served is void.