Case ID: f-cas_23/html/0814-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 13,809.
    TAYLOR v. WOODS et al.
    [3 Woods, 146.] 
    
    Circuit Court, D. Louisiana.
    April Term, 1878.
    Appeal — Admikaltt—Costs.
    The allowance or non-allowance of costs in an admiralty cause being a matter within the discretion of the court, is not a subject of appeal.
    [Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana.
    [This was a libei by Jordan Taylor against B. D. Woods and others.) Heard on motion to dismiss the appeal.
    R. De Gray, for libelant
    Charles S. Rice, for claimant
   BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.

As no decree could have been rendered for the libelant by the court below, except for costs; and as the allowance or non-allowance of costs is in the discretion of the court, and not a subject of appeal, the appeal must be dismissed, but without costs to either party.