Gribble v. Wilson

This is a motion to retax costs in a suit for slander. On motion of defendant, a special jury was ordered summoned and impaneled to try the suit. Persons were designated by the trial Judge, from whom the jury was selected. The plaintiff, upon trial, was the losing party and by order of the Court the costs were taxed to him. He now moves to retax this cost so as to relieve him of so much as was incurred at and about the summoning, impaneling, and serving of the special jury; in short, all costs incurred on account of the special jury, which was taxed to him by the Clerk, under § 5841 (Shannon…