Brown v. Tokuda

This is a personal injury action. Defendants prevailed. The trial court’s allowance of costs to defendants included attorneys’ fees amounting to $705.24 claimed to have been expended for attorneys retained by defendants’ attorney of record in connection with the taking in foreign jurisdictions of several depositions introduced in evidence on the trial. Plaintiffs have appealed from the order and contend that attorneys’ fees incurred for such purpose are not taxable as costs under our statutes 1 in ordinary negligence actions. We agree.

Ordinarily, attorney’s “fees are not taxable as costs…