Green v. Myrick

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court overruling a motion to retax costs by eliminating from the cost bill the sum of sixty-seven dollars and eighty cents taxed therein as fees for witnesses who failed to prove their attendance at court in the manner prescribed by sections 1806 and 1807, Code of 1930.

The proof shows that the witnesses in question merely appeared before the clerk and furnished him a statement of the number of days they had attended the court and the amount of mileage to which they were entitled, but none of them made affidavit to these facts, and no certificate…