Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. v. J. M. Dresser Co.

This is a contest over an expert accountant’s fee of $500, which the lower court taxed as costs against the defendant in rule and the plaintiff in the main demand. There was judgment in favor of plaintiff in rule and defendant in rule has appealed.

The record shows that on June 4, 1912, the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company filed suit against J. M. Dresser under No. 99,232, of the docket of the civil district court for the parish of Orleans and obtained a judgment against the defendant therein.

During the early part of the year 1913, the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company endeavored to execute the…