Case ID: us-ct-cl_42/html/0527-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McKenna", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWIN M. KEATLEY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [41 C. Cls. R., 384; 204 U. S. R., 562.]
    
      On the defendants' Appeal.
    
    The clerk of the United States Circuit Court in West Virginia, pursuant to a rule of the court and in accordance with State practice, makes out copies of subpoenas for service on witnesses. He also charges fees where the court has ordered a-severance.
    The court below decides:
    1. Where both State practice and the order of the court require that subpoenas be served by copy, the clerk is entitled to his fees for making the copies.
    2. Where joint indictments were returned against several defendants, but separate trials were granted to some of them, the clerk was justified in docketing the eases of these defendants as if separate indictments had been returned against them.
    3. The term “ cause ” in Revised Statutes, § 828, is synonymous with “ case ” or “ suit,” and indicates a proceeding in court. When Congress enumerates the details of a trial, such as issuing a venire, taxing costs, etc., in connection with the term, it is evidently employed as usually used in practice.
    The decision of the court below is affirmed upon the same grounds.
    February 25, 1907.
   Mr. Justice McKenna

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court