Lotz v. Polizzotto

ELLIOTT, Judge.

This is a controversy concerning liability for the fees of an expert examiner of questioned documents, employed under an agreement of the parties in the above consolidated suits. The fee with expense added was fixed at $569.12 and taxed as cost to be paid by Mrs. Marie Hebert Lotz and John T. Silmon, defendants in rule. The amount covered his fee in both cases. John T. Silmon has appealed. Mrs. Lotz did not appeal.

The record shows that Mrs. Marie Hebert Lotz, testamentary executrix of the estate of Lewis B. Hart, acting in her said capacity, instituted suit No. 891 against…