Lowicki v. Skibs A. S. Herstein

CHESNUT, District Judge.

This civil action presents a question of “costs” which, I believe, has not heretofore been decided by this court.

28 U.S.C.A. § 1914 provides that: “(a) The clerk of each district court shall require the parties instituting any civil action, suit or proceeding in such court, whether by original process, removal or otherwise, to pay a filing fee of $15 * *. (b) The clerk shall collect from the parties such additional fees only as are prescribed by the Judicial Conference of the United States.”

The plaintiff, a longshoreman, while working on the M. V. Black Falcon, a ship…