Case Name: McDONALD v. PAGE
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1832-10
Citations: 1 Wright 121
Docket Number: 
Parties: *McDONALD v. PAGE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 121–121

Head Matter:
*McDONALD v. PAGE.
■Costs — attorney’s fee — no parol evidence to explain tlie term costs — pleazum da/rrain continuance.
The term costs has a legal signification, and includes only taxable costs, not attorney’s fees.
Parol evidence is inadmissible to prove that the parties to a written agreement to pay costs intended to embrace attorney’s fees.
Assumpsit, upon a promissory note. The defendant pleaded puis darrain continuance, that he had agreed with the plaintiff to pay him a certain sum and costs, and the plaintiff should discontinue :suits, which sum with the costs he had paid. Issue was taken on this.
' The plaintiff contended that the agreement, which was in writing, obliged the defendant to pay the attorney’s fees in the suit, and ■offered evidence to prove that such was the understanding of the parties, and that the word costs used by them was intended to embrace those fees.

Opinion:
LANE, J.
The evidence is inadmissible. The word costs has a legal signification. It includes only those expenditures which are, -by law, taxable, and to be included in the judgment.
The defendant had judgment.