Ex Parte Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. After announcement of the judgment in this cause, ante, 147, the respondent moved to tax as costs, 1, a docket fee, and 2, his disbursements for printing briefs of counsel, and objections to filing a reply to the relator to the return of the respondent.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice "Waite
delivered the opinion of the court. It has never been the practice of this court, in cases brought before it under its appellate jurisdiction, to tax as costs disbursements by counsel or parties for printing briefs. We see no reason’for adopting a different rule in cases within our original jurisdiction.
A proceeding in this court, under its original jurisdiction, against a judge of an inferior court of the United States to obtain a writ of mandamus requiring him to proceed in a cause pending in court before him, is a civil cause, and a docket fee is, therefore, taxable…
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