Brown v. Winehill

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J. —

The respondent moves to re-tax the costs allowed by the clerk of this court upon the appellants’ cost bill which contained an item of $250 paid for stenographers’ minutes of the trial. It is said that these minutes were procured for the purpose of preparing the statement on appeal. In fact they were not used for that purpose at all, but were thrown into the record bodily as the statement. Either way, however, the statute seems to make no provision for the allowance of such an outlay as a disbursement. In equity cases, it is true, the acts…