Bank of St. Albans v. Knickerbacker

Headnote

Where the trial of a cause is put off by a defendant on payment of costs, a plaintiff cannot tax in his bill, as costs to be paid under such order, the expenses of obtaining, suing out, executing and returning a commission to take the testimony of foreign witnesses.

Motion for re-taxation of costs. At the last Rensselaer circuit, the trial of this cause was put off on the usual terms, on the application of the defendants, founded upon the nonattendance of a material witness, who had been subpoenaed. The plaintiffs charged in their bill all the costs of obtaining and suing out a commission to take the testimony of foreign witnesses, the interrogatories, depositions, and expenses of returning the commission. Those items were allowed by thp taxing officer, although objected to by the defendants, who now appealed from the taxation.