Shapiro v. Punia

Stenographer’s minutes of the trial are a “ reasonable and necessary” expense which may be included in the bill of costs, as provided in section 1518 of the *816Civil Practice Act, if they are intended to be used to prepare proposed amendments to a case on appeal and when the appellant fails to deliver a copy thereof to his adversary (Pratt v. Clark, 124 App. Div. 248; Starkweather v. Sundstrom, 113 App. Div. 401). An incidental benefit for another purpose will not take it out of that classification (Bremer v. Manhattan Ry. Co., 51 Misc. 96, affd. 115 App. Div. 900; Pratt v. Clark, supra). But…