Jones v. Edward B. Smith Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
At Raw. Action by Thomas A. Jones and others against the Edward B. Smith Company. On appeal from the clerk’s taxation of costs.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHFRSON, District Judge.
The only item in dispute is the premium paid to a surety company upon a supersedeas bond given upon a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court. The bond was entered under rule 13 of the Circuit Court of Appeals (150 Fed. xxxix, 79 C. C. A. xxxix), and there is no controversy concerning the amount paid as premium. In my opinion the clerk of the Circuit Court was right in following the decision in The Bencliff, 158 Fed. 377. I need not repeat what was said in that case. As far as I am aware, all the other decisions upon this subject are cited there, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The BencliffDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1908
3Cited by3 opinions
- Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Lunn v. F. W. Woolworth Co. F. W. Woolworth Co. v. LunnCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- Jenkins Petroleum Process Co. v. Sinclair Refining Co.District Court, D. Maine · 1939