Case Name: JOHN DEN on the demise of Matthias Williamson v. OLIVER JOHNSON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1832-02
Citations: 13 N.J.L. 156
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOHN DEN on the demise of Matthias Williamson v. OLIVER JOHNSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 156–157

Head Matter:
JOHN DEN on the demise of Matthias Williamson v. OLIVER JOHNSON.
A party cannot tax costs against his adversary for copies or exemplifications produced in evidence on trial.
Mileage for travel within the state only, is to be taxed by one party against the other.
Hamilton for the defendant,
moved to retax the bill of costs in this cause,
1. Because it contained a charge for the costs of procuring ■exemplifications of certain judgments used upon the trial.
2. Because it contained a charge for the mileage of a witness from Portsmouth in New Hampshire.
Scudder, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Both these points have been long and well settled in this state. It has been repeatedly adjudged that one-party cannot recover from the other the costs of exemplifications or copies of judgments or"other documents used upon the-trial, nor can he recover the mileage of a witness until he enters the state by the ordinary route of travelling to the place of' trial. From that time he travels under the authority and by-virtue of the process of the court, and is entirled to mileage.
Retaxation accordingly..