Opinion ID: 1170215
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Heading: Provision for Costs in the Principal Judgment

Text: The judgment as originally entered provided that each defendant before the court should recover its costs of suit from plaintiff leaving the amounts blank. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1033.) Two months after the judgment was filed the court entered an Order re Motion to Plaintiff to Tax Costs, setting out the costs awarded to each defendant which were thereafter inserted in the original judgment, as follows: San Fernando $ 3,046.31 Glendale 96,384.45 Burbank 93,727.45 Crescenta Valley 1,721.27 Other defendants 1,244.32 before the court ___________ $196,123.80 The bulk of the costs awarded to Glendale and Burbank were reference costs (their apportioned shares of the separate judgment in favor of the referee) and reporters' fees, as will appear from the following breakdown: Glendale Burbank ---------- ---------- Reference costs $69,473.00 $66,816.00 Reporters' fees 24,023.06 24,023.06 Other costs 2,888.39 2,888.39 __________ __________ $96,384.45 $93,727.45 The combined effect of the separate judgment in favor of the referee and the award of costs in the judgment on the merits was to impose upon plaintiff $480,836 of the total reference costs of $493,264.