Consolidated Fisheries Co. v. Fairbanks, Morse & Co.

KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.(1) Fee of court reporter for stenographic transcript, $536.

The new judicial code, 28 U.S.C. § 1920(2) gives the judge discretion to “tax as costs * * * fees of the court reporter for all or any part of the stenographic transcript necessarily obtained for use in the case”.

The trial of this case lasted about a week. A large amount of money was involved. By direction of the Court, the jury returned a special verdict. Both sides filed motions for judgment on the answers to the written interrogatories which made up the special verdict. In my opinion it was necessary that…