Case ID: hill_1/html/0665-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      By the Court, Cowen, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Chichester vs. The Agent of the Mount Pleasant State Prison.
    Referees are not entitled to $3 per day for services and expenses in settling a special report under the 71st rule of this court, but only the statutory fee for drawing and engrossing the report
    Fees of referees. The referees in this case settled a special report under Rule 71 of this court, charging therefor a fee of three dollars per day for attendance and expenses of each referee, besides the usual fee for drawing and engrossing the report ; and they declined delivering the report to the defendants’ attorney, at whose instance it was made, until all these charges were paid,
    A motion was made that the bjll be taxed and the report delivered- on such terms as the court sjiould direct.
   By the Court, Cowen, J.

Let the per diem allowance be-deducted, and the special report be delivered on paying the remainder. ’

Rulp accordingly.