Case Name: ANONYMOUS
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1863-01-21
Citations: 1 F. Cas. 992
Docket Number: 
Parties: ANONYMOUS.
Judges: Before NELSON, Circuit Justice, and SHIP-MAN, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 992–992

Head Matter:
Case No. 432.
ANONYMOUS.
[5 Blatchf. 134.]
Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
Jan. 21, 1863.
Witness — Attendance and Fees — Mileage.
Traveling fees to a witness are allowable only to the extent a subpoena will run; that is, for any distance within the district, but for not exceeding 100 miles from the place of trial, unless the distance is wholly within the district.
[Cited in Beckwith v. Easton, Case No. 1,212; Dennis v. Eddy, Id. 3,793; Haines v. McLaughlin, 29 Fed. 70; Young v. Merchants’ Ins. Co., Id. 275; The Vernon, 36 Fed. 116; Buffalo Ins. Co. v. Providence & S. S. S. Co., 29 Fed. 237; Wooster v. Hill, 44 Fed. 819. Disapproved in U. S. v. Sanborn, 28 Fed. 303, 3&t.]
[See Eastman v. Sherry, 37 Fed. 844; Smith v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co., 3S Fed. 321; The Syracuse, 36 Fed. S30.]
Before NELSON, Circuit Justice, and SHIP-MAN, District Judge.
[Reported by Hon. Samnel Blatchford, District Judge, and here reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
In this case, which was a question of the taxation of costs, SHIPMAN, District Judge, with the concurrence of Mr. Justice NELSON, held, that traveling fees to a witness were allowable only to the extent a subpoena would run; that is, for any distance within the district, but for not exceeding 100 miles from the place of trial, unless the distance was wholly within the district.