47 Iowa 108 | Iowa | 1877
The Code (section 3781) provides: “The clerk ofthe District or Circuit Court shall be entitled to charge and receive the following fees: * * For entering any rule or order, twenty-five cents”; and section 2596, that “all costs caused thereby,” that is, by the change, “shall be paid by the applicant, and no change shall be deemed perfected until such costs are paid.” If not so perfected by the morning of the second day after it was granted, or before the cause is reached for trial, if sooner reached, it “will be deemed waived and the cause tried as though no such order had been granted.” Code, § 2594.
The court made an order granting the change of venue. For this ■ the clerk was entitled to charge and receive twenty-five
The fact that the clerk never had charged or taxed any costs in cases of a like character previous to the time when this action on his part was taken can make no difference. If the clerk did not know the law previously, such fact cannot excuse the defendant. It was his place to know what the law was in this respect: The absence of the defendant when the order making the change was entered furnishes no excuse. It was his duty to be there, and he gives no reason why he was not. Besides, if he had been it could not have made any difference.
Affirmed.