Vannatta v. Brewer

This was a motion to re-tax costs. The question presented for decision involves the construction of the following clause■ of section 19, chapter 53, Bev. Stat. .1874: “ Mileage, for each mile of necessary travel to serve any such writ or process as aforesaid, (a subpoena being one before named,) calculating from the place of holding the court to the place of residence of the defendant or witness, five cents each way.” And it is whether, when a subpoena for several witnesses residing at one place, say twenty-five miles from the place of holding court, is delivered to the sheriff, and is served…