Regan v. Dillon

The defendants seek to compel the clerk to tax as costs a premium paid by defendants upon an undertaking to stay execution under a judgment subsequently reversed. The only authority for this is subdivision 10 of section 1518 of the Civil Practice Act, which provides that a bill of costs shall include “ such other reasonable and necessary expenses as are taxable according to the course and practice of the court * * In the United States Circuit Court of this district the cost of a supersedeas bond has been allowed as costs. (Edison v. American Mutoscope Co., 117 Fed. 192) It is unquestionable,…