Case Name: Barto v. Beaver Traction Company, Appellant
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1908-10-12
Citations: 37 Pa. Super. 447
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 138
Parties: Barto v. Beaver Traction Company, Appellant.
Judges: Before Rice, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Head and Beaver, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 447–448

Head Matter:
Barto v. Beaver Traction Company, Appellant.
Costs — Appeals—Printing paper-book — Statutes—Act of April 15,. 1907, P. L. 83.
The Act of April 15, 1907, P. L. 83, allowing the successful party in the final decision of a case to tax, as part of the costs, the amount expended for the printing of the paper-book on appeals, is not so far retroactive as to apply to appeals determined before its passage.
Argued May 12,1908.
Appeal, No. 138, April T., 1908, by defendant, from decree of C. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1905, No. 302; sustaining appeal from taxation of costs in case of J. A. Barto and Alice I. Barto, his wife, v. Beaver Valley Traction Company.
Before Rice, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Head and Beaver, JJ.
Reversed.
Appeal from taxation of costs. Before Holt, P. J.
The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
Error assigned was order sustaining the appeal.
James L. Hogan, with him John M. Buchanan, for appellant.
A. P. Marshall, for appellee.
October 12, 1908:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The only question involved in this case is whether the Act of assembly approved April 15, 1907, P. L. 83, allowing the successful party in the final decision of a case to tax, as part of the costs, the amount expended for the printing of the paper-book on appeal, is so far retroactive as to apply to appeals determined before its passage.
The plaintiffs brought suit September 7,1905; on March 30, 1906, a trial was had and a verdict for the defendant was rendered upon which judgment was entered April 9, 1906. On that day an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court and on January 7,1907, the judgment was reversed with a venire facias de novo. On March 20, 1907, on a retrial, a verdict for the plaintiffs was rendered in the sum of $1,655. On May 9,1907, a new trial was refused and judgment was entered on the verdict. On May 21, 1907, the plaintiffs filed an amendment to their bill of costs, by adding thereto a claim of $92.00, that being the amount expended for printing the paper-book on the appeal to the Supreme Court. To this the defendant filed exceptions and after hearing in the court below, the prothonotary was di-' rected to retax the plaintiffs' bill of costs and allow the con-, tested item.
This same question has been recently decided by this court in Smith v. Railroad Company, 36 Pa. Superior Ct. 584, and for the reasons therein given this judgment is reversed.