Lee v. Dameron
Lee v. Dameron
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this proceeding in the Chancery Court at Knoxville, certain real estate, which had been divided into town lots, was partitioned into five shares by commissioners appointed for the purpose, and the five shares allotted to four different persons. One person taking two shares, one in her own right, the other as de-visee of a deceased brother.
The commissioners returned with their report a map, upon which the lots were colored and numbered. They say: “That to A. P. Jennings, wife of E. B. Jennings, is allotted her one-fifth, which is designated on the map in the several lots and parcels by the letter £). and numbered as follows: ” Then follows in figures the numbers of more than one hundred lots.
By the Code, section 4586, the fee for registering sheriff’s deed was $1.25. For registering deed of conveyance, grant, or other assurance of title, including only one tract, pipce or parcel of land or one warrant, 75 cents. For each additional tract or town lot, 25 cents. Then follow fifteen other sub-sections, embracing various instruments which by law are allowed to be registered. By sub-section 6, the fee for registering decrees for title under one hundred words, is 50 cts. By sub-section 7, the fee for each additional hundred words, is 20 cents.
Then follows the act of November 25, 1871, which allows registers to receive the following fees and none others: “ For each deed, bond, or other assurance of title, not exceeding five hundred dollars, purporting to convey one tract or lot of ground, $1.00; for each additional tract or lot in the same deed, 25 cents; for every one hundred words over five hundred, 10 cents; for every other instrument of whatever kind or character required by law to be registered, or which
The decree of the Chancellor will be affirmed, the appellant paying the costs of this court.
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