Opinion ID: 1321335
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Items 1, 2, 8 and 9

Text: Item 1. Judge Thornburg allowed Item 1, the cost of unidentified miscellaneous maps, document reproductions and ordinances in the amount of $80.44. Since City did not appeal, the allowance of this charge is res judicata. We note, however, the expense of procuring surveys, maps, plans, photographs and documents are not taxable as costs unless there is clear statutory authority therefor or they have been ordered by the court. 20 C.J.S. Costs §§ 219, 220 (1940). See G.S. § 38-4 (1966) and cases cited in the annotation thereunder. Item 2. On the hearing before Judge Thornburg City did not contest its liability for this item, the cost of transcripts of the hearings in the amount of $546.10. Item 8. City's liability for this item, $6.50 to the clerk for Xerox copies of an invoice, cannot be adjudicated on this appeal since the judge did not rule upon it and no hint of its purpose appears in the record. Item 9. This charge of $2.50, the expense of obtaining copy of Court of Appeals opinion, is res judicata. It was the one item in respondents' petition which the clerk disallowed.