Case Name: Clapp vs. Van Epps
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1830-01
Citations: 3 Wend. 430
Docket Number: 
Parties: Clapp vs. Van Epps.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 430–431

Head Matter:
Clapp vs. Van Epps.
Sheriff’s fees en bringing up Xaleas^corpm ad testificanlatedby thefeé
Taxation of costs. The plaintiff charged for fees due sheriff for bringing up a witness on a habeas corpus ad testijicandum at the following rates, viz.: Attendance per diem, $3; expenses per diem, $1,50 ; mileage, 19 cts. per mile; and re-bed upon 9 Johns. R. 328, and 13 id. 123. The defendant insisted that the sheriff was entitled only to the allowance made by the fee bill in 2 R. L. 20.
J. P. Cushman, for plaintiff.
Butcher Sp Harris, for defendant.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
The allowance approved by the court in Smith v. Birdsall, (9 Johns. R. 328,) was to an officer for bringing up a sheriff on an attachmentfor con tempt in not returning process. For such service no provision was made in the fee bill, and the verdict of the jury-was approved as a reasonable allowance. Here the prisoner was brought up on a habeas corpus ad testificandum ; the fees of the sheriff are expressly regulated by the fee bill and fixed at $1,50, 'besides mileage at the rate of 12f cents per mile, which we have said may be computed as well for returning from as going to the place of trial. (7 Cowen, 424.) Let the bill be taxed accordingly.