Case Name: Johnson against Gay
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1826-08
Citations: 6 Cow. 54
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson against Gay.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 54–55

Head Matter:
Johnson against Gay.
UTICA,
Aug. 1826.
referees' aT to tbe costs, on heanng'befoie them, is not a foundation for a rule on-the subject, in-the supreme court.
This cause being referred; and the referees having convened to hear it, the defendant’s counsel moved, on the affidavit of the absence of a material witness, to put off the ⅝ hearing. This was objected to by the plaintiff’s counsel, unless the plaintiff’s costs of preparing for the hearing were first paid. But the referees doubting their power to impose this condition, though they agreed that the costs should be paid, adjourned unconditionally.
Whether they’ may impose casts as the condition of adjourning-? Queri,
W. H. Maynard,
now moved for a rule against the defendant, that he pay the costs, (which had been taxed,) or that an attachment issue.
C. P. Kirkland, contra,
cited 1 R. L. 516, s. 2 ; Sac. Law Diet. Attachment.

Opinion:
Curia.
Any order or direction as to costs, which referees may make, is no foundation for our interference by attachment. Nor is it necessary, in this case, for us to say whether they have power to impose the payment of costs, as the condition of an adjournment.
Motion denied.