People ex rel. Loft, Inc. v. Sexton

Pécora, J.

This is a motion to expunge from the record in a reference the stipulation permitting the stenographer to charge seventy-five cents per page for the referee’s copy, instead of ten cents per folio, the official rate, or twenty-five cents per page. At the outset it is to be observed that the ten-cent official rate is applicable only to official court stenographers. (Civ. Prac. Act, § 1544; Utica Partition Corp. v. Jackson Const. Co., 201 App. Div. 376; Eckstein v. Schleimer, 62 Misc. 635.) It is evident that an official court stenographer takes the stenographic record as a part of his…