Case ID: ny-super-ct_13/html/0661-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Latham v. Bliss & Childs.
    When persons, severally liable, are united as defendants, but appear by different attorneys, and answer separately, and after issue joined, and after the action has been noticed for trial, settle, and, as part of the terms of settlement, agree to pay to the plaintiff the legal costs of the action, the plaintiff is entitled to only one bill of costs. He cannot have a full bill against each defendant. He is entitled to all the disbursements actually made, and which would have been taxable if the defendants had been sued separately.
    He is not entitled to a term fee for a term commencing subsequent to the settlement, although the action had been noticed for such term, and a note of issue filed, and a calendar had been made for such term, containing such action. (Reported in 13 How. Pr. R. 416.)
    (At General Term,
    December, 1856.
    Before Oakley, Ch. J., Bosworth, Hoffman, and Slosson, J.J.)