114 Ky. 982 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1902
Opinion of the court by
Reversing.
The appellee, upon notice duly «executed, moved the circuit court of Jefferson county, common pleas division, for a judgment against the appellant for $222.70, based upon his liability as surety on a bond for cast in the suit of the Kansas City Land Company against the Louisville Railway Company. The substance of the defendant’s answer is a denial that the cost of the case had been duly taxed by the clerk of the court, or ¡that the amount was the sum of $222.70. It is further alleged that there is included in said taxation of costs the sum of $92, alleged to have been paid by plaintiff for a stenographic report of the evidence at
It is insisted for appellant that, as there was no order of court directing the transcribing of the stenographic notes, the fee therefor, $92, was not legally taxable against the party plaintiff in the original suit; or, in other words, no judgment was ever rendered for that sum, though the same was included in the execution issued upon the judgment' rendered. Section 4639, Kentucky Statutes, reads as follows : ••'Upon any trial or proceeding in any civil case in said court or division, if either party to the suit, or their attorney, shall request the services of «aid reporter, or if, in the opinion of the presiding judge, the testimony should be preserved, the presiding judge shall direct such reporter to make a full report of the testimony heard therein, whereupon it shall be the duty of the reporter to take full stenographic notes of such testimony, and upon the motion of either party to the suit or proceeding, or their attorney, to cause a full and accurate transcript of the same to be made, which shall be filed among the papers to be used in making up the bill of exceptions to the court of appeals.” It is the contention of appellee that either party may apply to the stenographer for a transcript of the evidence, and ‘that the cost thereof shall be taxed as ordinary cost of the
The judgment is reversed, and cause remanded, with direction to overrule the demurrer, and for proceedings consistent herewith.