40 Iowa 646 | Iowa | 1875
-These costs were taxed under the provisions of section 3814 of the Code of 1873, as follows: “Witnesses called to testify only to an opinion founded on special study or experience in any branch of science, or to make scientific or professional examinations and state the result thereof, shall receive additional compensation, to be fixed by the court, with reference to the value of the'time employed and the degree of learning or skill required.”
Whilst the witnesses in question are physicians, and competent to testify to an opinion founded on special study and exjoerience, yet it does not appear from the affidavit in question that they were called for the purpose of giving such testb
REVERSED.