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* [Philadelphia, February 17, 1838.]
    MURPHY against LOYD.
    A party is not entitled to an allowance in his bill of costs for the expense of office copies of deeds and other documents produced on the trial in support of his title.
    This was an appeal from a taxation of costs by the prothonotary, after an award of arbitrators, in an action of ejectment brought by James Murpby against Isaac S. Loyd.
    On the trial before the arbitrators, the plaintiff produced certified copies of certain deeds and powers of attorney, from the office of the recorder of deeds, &c., which he gave in evidence in support of his title. The prothonotary allowed the expense of these exemplifications in the costs.
    Mr. Chester, for the appellant.
    Mr. C. L. Ashmead, eontra.
    
   Per Curiam.

The charge is clearly inadmissible. The defendant cannot be required to pay the expense of copies of papers necessary to the establishment of the plaintiff’s title.

Cited by the Court, 10 Wright, 235.

See also, 1 Wharton, 275 2 Miles, 189.