Case ID: f_28/html/0029-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wheeler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wigton v. Brainerd.
    
      (Circuit Court, D. Vermont.
    
    July 8, 1886.)
    Costs — Failure op ProsecutioN — Dismissal—Docket Pee.
    Whore a suit is dismissed for w4nt of prosecution, a docket fee to the defendant is not taxable.
    In Equity.
    No appearance for plaintiff.
    
      Guy O. Noble, for defendant.
   Wheeler, J.

This suit was dismissed, with costs, for want of pros* edition. The defendant claims a docket fee of S20 as a part of the costs to be taxed, which the clerk has disallowed. This whole subject is carefully examined, and all the cases up to that time, bearing upon it, are reviewed, by Mr. Justice Blatcheoed, in Wooster v. Handy, 23 Fed. Rep. 49. The conclusiones there reached that this docket fee in such cases is not taxable. That case is controlling here, notwithstanding the different views expressed by Judge Hammond in Partee v. Thomas, 27 Fed. Rep. 429.

Taxation of clerk affirmed.