Alexander v. Todman

The question presented by this appeal is whether the District Court of the Virgin Islands erred in its taxation of costs and attorneys’ fees. The question arose following our remand to the District Court of this action and another companion suit. No useful purpose would be served in recounting the background facts since they are set out in our opinion on the prior appeal, 1964, 5 V.I. 137, 337 F.2d 962, cert. den. 380 U.S. 915. Suffice it to say that in the first action, No. 158-1963, Joseph Alexander and Daniel W. Ambrose, the president and secretary, respectively, of the Democratic Party of…