Houston & G. N. R. R. Co. v. Jones

Roberts, Chief Justice.

Appellee recovered a judgment, which was rendered, by agreement of counsel, on the 28th. of May, 1875, against appellant, for all the cost of a suit.

An execution was issued for the sum of $170.67, the cost of suit, with a fee bill attached, in which there was a charge of “Witnesses, $153.42.”

The defendant filed a motion on June 15,1875, to retax the cost, and disallow the fees of the three witnesses, amounting to said sum of $153.42, because the amounts charged were excessive, and because three witnesses were summoned to prove the same facts.

There was a levy on…