Case Name: Chichester vs. The Agent of the Mount Pleasant State Prison
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1841-08
Citations: 1 Hill & Den. 665
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chichester vs. The Agent of the Mount Pleasant State Prison.
Judges: 
Reporter: Hill's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 665–665

Head Matter:
Chichester vs. The Agent of the Mount Pleasant State Prison.
Referees are not entitled to $3 per day for services and expenses in settling a special report under the 71st rule of this court, but only the statutory fee for drawing and engrossing the report
Fees of referees. The referees in this case settled a special report under Rule 71 of this court, charging therefor a fee of three dollars per day for attendance and expenses of each referee, besides the usual fee for drawing and engrossing the report ; and they declined delivering the report to the defendants’ attorney, at whose instance it was made, until all these charges were paid,
A motion was made that the bjll be taxed and the report delivered- on such terms as the court sjiould direct.

Opinion:
By the Court, Cowen, J.
Let the per diem allowance be-deducted, and the special report be delivered on paying the remainder. '
Rulp accordingly.