Consolidated Gas Co. v. Newton

(after stating the facts as above). Before the amended admiralty rules fixed the practice, it had been the custom in this circuit to allow as costs premiums on stipulations given to release vessels from arrest. The Volund (C. C. A. 2) 181 Eed. 643, 104 C. C. A. 373; The Hurstdale (D. C.) 171 Fed, 607; The John D. Dailey (D. C.) 158 Fed. 642. Elsewhere the authorities were not unanimous, but in such matters we follow our local custom. I have been unable to get much help out of the books as to the rule in suits in equity. Judge Lacombe in Edison v. American Mutoscope Co. (C. C.) 117 Fed. 192,…