Case Name: Wickliffe vs. Roberts
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1831-06-16
Citations: 6 J.J. Marsh. 217
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wickliffe vs. Roberts.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 217–217

Head Matter:
Wickliffe vs. Roberts.
June 16.
Error to the Nelson Circuit; Paul I. Booker, Judge.
Attorney's fee. Costs, taxation of
Motion.
"Case 53.
In a suit in cbanc®r3'ito c;fi0 per/-or. manee of a bomlforthe of te^yit°is illegal, in th® taxation of an attorney’s fee of ten dollars- It is on ^er'e3 the title or boundaries of ooma'i^ question, that an attorney’s tase(i,
Crittenden, for plaintiff; Monroe and Morehead, for defendant.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Roberts, holding Widdiffe's bond, for n conveyance of all his interest in a lot of ground in the town of Springtidd, instituted a suit in chancery against hurt, to compel a compliance} and obtained a decree in pursuance of the prayer of this bill. An attorney's foe of ten dollars, having been allowed to Roberts, in the taxation of costs, Wicldiffe, insisting that it was not justified by law, made a motion to the circuit court, to correct it, which was overruled; and, to reverse the decision on that point, Wicldiffe prosecutes this wri t of error. We are of opinion, that the court erred, by refusing to cause the correction, required to be made. It is in those decrees, only, where the title or boundaries of land shall or may come in question, that a fee of ten dollars is to be taxed, The decree referred to, is not one of that description» There was no controversy about title or boundaries-; and, indeed, considering the nature and object of the suit, which, was to compel a conveyance of Wickiifife's interest, only, there could not have been any contest, on either of those points.
The order, overruling the motion, irjust be reversed, with costs; and the case remanded, wiih directions, to cause the error to be corrected.