Stachon v. Orville Hoxie & Haviland Products Co.

STARR, Chief Judge.

On May 18, 1960, the defendants filed objections to the taxing of court costs in plaintiff’s favor. They base their objections to the plaintiff’s bill of costs on the grounds: (1) That he recovered a verdict of less than $10,000; (2) that the court has not entered an order authorizing him to tax costs against the defendants; and (3) that the expense of taking the deposition of Dr. Mulder and the expense for a map and for photographs are not properly taxable as costs.

The court will first consider the question of whether the plaintiff should be permitted to tax any court…