Case ID: dc_1/html/0359-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The CotjRt", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dyson’s Administrator v. Thomas White, Jr.
    The costs of continuance await the event of the cause, unless there be a special order to the contrary; an attachment will not lie for non-payment of the costs of a continuance until after a rule to show cause, nor unless there has been a personal service of the order of the Court to pay the costs; nor. unless the bill of costs state the particular items.
    
      Mr. Youngs, for the plaintiff,
    moved for an attachment against the defendant, for not paying the costs of the last term, (the cause having been continued at his costs,) grounded on a paper signed by the clerk, stating the costs of the continuance in general terms to be, for witnesses’ attendance, $48, and marshal’s fees, $3, without stating who were the witnesses, nor how long they attended, nor for what services the marshal’s fees arose ; nor did it contain any certificate of the order of the court, or even a copy of the entry respecting the continuance. On the back of the paper was an order from John A. Burford, (the plaintiff’s husband,) to pay the money to ■»-, and a memorandum purporting to be signed by the defendant, refusing to pay the bill unless compelled by law.
   The CotjRt

refused the attachment, because there did not appear to be a personal service of the order to pay the costs, or of the entry on the minutes, and because the bill of costs did not state the particulars.

The clerk stated that it was not the practice in the Court to issue attachments in such cases, but the costs awaited the event of the cause. It also seemed to be the practice, that a rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue, should be granted.