Downing v. . Marshall

Our attention is specially directed to the exceptions touching the extra allowances of costs and counsel fees in this case.

When the case was first in the Supreme Court, there were allowed, in addition to taxable costs: to the plaintiffs or their attorneys, $500; to James E. Marshall, $250; Benjamin Marshall and others, $250; the Bible society, $250; the Missionary society, $250; the Tract society, $250; the Marshall infirmary $250; to the attorney and guardian ad litem of infants, who put in an answer submitting their rights to the court, $250 — in all, $2,250.

These sums were allowed by the…