The Walter Adams
District Court, D. Rhode Island
In Admiralty. Suit by the Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Company against the fishing steamer Walter Adams. On libelant’s objection to clerk’s taxation of costs. Overruled.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The libelant objects to the clerk’s taxation as costs of an item of $120 paid for premiums on appeal bonds. These were required by rule 13 of the Circuit Court of Appeals (150 Fed. xxxix, 79 C. C. A. xxxix). The claimant, who prevailed upon appeal, was put to this expense in order to comply with a rule of court. The Gov. Ames, 187 Fed. 40, 48, 49, 109 C. C. A. 94, and The Reliance (D. C.) 189 Fed. 416, related to premiums on bonds given to release a vessel, and may be thus distinguished from the present case.
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