Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — MUST SUPPORT COURTS [ARTICLE]

MUST SUPPORT COURTS

stenographer Entitled to Pay In Bpite of No Appropriation. Indianapolis, June 11.—The county council, or any other official body, has no right to interfere with the process of the courts by failure to appropriate sufficient funds to carry on the courts or in any other manner, according to the decision of Judge Vinson Carter of the superior court in the suit brought by Mrs. Mary L. Spencer against the county commissioners for $125 in .payment for work as a stenographer which she did in 1907 and 1908 by order of the judge of probate court. Mrs. Spencer’s claim was presented to the commissioners, but the county council refused to appropriate the $125 on the ground that when the work was done there was no appropriation to cover the expense, although the judge of the court had certified to the allowance.