14 Blatchf. 445 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York | 1878
This is an appeal from the clerk’s taxation of costs. The suit is an action at law originally brought in a state court. After three trials in the state court, in two of which the plaintiff had a verdict, which, upon appeal, was set aside, and the judgment reversed, with costs to the defendant, to abide the event, the cause was removed into this court by the plaintiff, and the defendant now has a verdict and a judgment. The clerk, in taxing the costs, has disallowed the fees taxable by the New York Code, to the defendant's attorney, as fees for proceedings before and after the granting of a new trial, term fees, trial fees, argument fees, fees for making and serving a case, &e., which, if the case had proceeded to the same result in the state court, would have been taxable against the plaintiff, for the proceedings prior to the removal of the cause, amounting, in all, to $435. From the dis-allowance of these items the defendant appeals.
The clerk is right in his taxation. In this court, the amount of costs to be allowed to attorneys is governed by sections 823 and