Edwards v. Prendergast

The relator applies for a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the comptroller to pay him $522.20 awarded him by an order of the Supreme Court as compensation for services and for personal and incidental expenses in a homicide defense. The question is only as to $22.20, which relator paid for the stenographer’s minutes before the city *400magistrate on the commitment of the accused, and for the minutes of the testimony of a particular witness, jointly indicted with his client, but separately tried.

I do not think the statutory term, “ personal and incidental expenses,” is to be limited merely, as…