Howard v. Rome & Turin Plank Road Co.

Gridley, Justice.

'—When the Legislature abolished “ all statutes establishing or regulating” the costs or fees of attorneys, solicitors and counsel, in civil actions, and prescribed the same rate of compensation for a party, whose cause would not occupy an hour in the preparation and trial of it, as for one who would be obliged to spend days in preparing ; where witnesses would be summoned from distant parts, and where counsel would be employed many days in its trial; they foresaw that cases might occur, in which justice would demand an additional allowance of costs. The accordingly enacted…