35 Fla. 539 | Fla. | 1895
The sheriff of this court has included in his bill of costs in this case the sum of thirty-three dollars and forty cents as mileage for the service of the alternative writ of mandamus issued from this court, and the same amount as mileage for the service of the peremptory writ also issued from this court. The motion made by respondent for the taxation of costs in this case calls in question the right of the sheriff to be paid the said items charged as mileage. The respondent, upon whom the writs were served, resided in Duval county, and it does not appear that the sheriff of that county was in any way disqualified to make the service, or that the sheriff of this court executed the writs in person by any special order made for that purpose. In answer to the motion the sheriff says: “The only question raised by the motion is, whether the sheriff of the Supreme Court can serve a writ of said court in person in any other county than Leon. Does the fact that the law makes the sheriffs of the several counties the deputies of the sheriff of the Supreme Court in their respective counties, preclude the sheriff from acting in any other county than the county where the Supreme Court sits? Section 1823 of the Revised Statutes provides that he shall in person or by deputy attend all sessions of the Supreme Court, and serve all process required to be served. It must therefore be a matter of discretion with the sheriff of the Supreme Court, whether to serve
The question presented by the motion is, whether the sheriff of Leon county, who is by statute made the sheriff of the Supreme Court, is entitled to mileage from tho capital of the State in going to and returning from a distant county for the purpose of serving process of this court, in the absence of any showing that the sheriff of the county where .the service was made was in any way disqualified, or that it was necessary for the sheriff of this court to serve the process in person.
It was enacted in 1868 that “the sheriff of the county in which the court is held shall be the sheriff of the Supreme Court, and shall, in person or by deputy, attend its sessions and serve all process required to be served, and shall receive such fees therefor as provided by law.” McClellan’s Digest, page 937, § 3. This was. the only statutory regulation on the subject from 1868 until the Revised Statutes went into effect in June, 1892, and is to be found in sections 1322 and 1323. A statute passed in 1833, but repealed by the one enacted in 1868, supra, provided that “the sheriffs in the respective counties in this State, in serving process and notices, shall have the same authenticity (authority) in the Supreme Court as in their’ own courts respect