Case Name: Bank of St. Albans vs. Knickerbacker and others
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1832-06-07
Citations: 7 Wend. 532
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bank of St. Albans vs. Knickerbacker and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 532–532

Head Matter:
Bank of St. Albans vs. Knickerbacker and others.
Where the trial of a cause is put off by a defendant on payment of costs, a plaintiff cannot tax in his bill, as costs to be paid under such order, the expenses of obtaining, suing out, executing and returning a commission to take the testimony of foreign witnesses.
Motion for re-taxation of costs. At the last Rensselaer circuit, the trial of this cause was put off on the usual terms, on the application of the defendants, founded upon the nonattendance of a material witness, who had been subpoenaed. The plaintiffs charged in their bill all the costs of obtaining and suing out a commission to take the testimony of foreign witnesses, the interrogatories, depositions, and expenses of returning the commission. Those items were allowed by thp taxing officer, although objected to by the defendants, who now appealed from the taxation.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Nelson, J.
It is the settled practice of the court, that the costs relating to a commission abide the final event of the cause, and are not chargeable as the costs of the circuit, which a defendant is bound to pay on putting off a trial. There must therefore be a re-taxation.