In re Grand Jurors' Mileage

Citations

• 120 F. 307
• 1903 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 360

Syllabus

<p>1. Grand Jurors — Mileage—Computation.</p> <p>The legal fiction that a term of court is but one day cannot affect the construction of section 852 of the United States revised statutes, as amended [U. S. Oomp. St. 1901, p. 656], relating to the allowance of mileage compensation to jurors.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Where grand jurors Jn obedience to due process attended the District Court of the United States in Delaware on the first day of the term, and were on the same day discharged by the court until the thirteenth day thereafter, on which latter day they duly attended and were finally discharged, held, that they were entitled to mileage compensation for two round .trips, or four single trips, between their residence and the place of holding court</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>