Trustees v. Greenough
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States' for the Northern District of Florida. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
delivered the opinion of the court.'
‘’The question in this case is - one of cost's, expenses, and allowances awarded to- the complainant below out of a trust fund under the control of the court. Ordinarily a decree will not be reviewed by this court on a question of costs merely in a suit in equity, although the court has entire control of the matter of costs, as well as the mérits, when it' has possession of. *528the cause on appeal from the final decree. But it was held by Lord Cottenham, in Angell v. Davis (4 Myl. & Craig, 360), that Vhen the case is not one of personal costs, in which the…
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