Court Opinion

ID: 9559415
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:28:49.936283+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:10:54.819728
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On Denial of Petition for Rehearing
SMITH, Justice.
On denial of respondent’s petition for rehearing, and in answer to respondent’s contention that appellant was erroneously awarded costs on this appeal, we point to the following:
*526The Employment Security Agency may sue and be sued as regards all matters within the purview of the Employment Security Law. See Idaho Code, Title 72, Part 3, ch. 13, and particularly I.C., sections 72-1338, 72-1339, 72-1340, 72-1351, 72-1353, 72-1354, 72-1355, 72-1356, 72-1358, 72-1359, 72-1360, 72-1361 and 72-1368.
In carrying out his duties to administer the Employment Security Law, the director of the Employment Security Agency may make expenditures, I.C., § 72-1333; he may pay the fees of witnesses who are subpoenaed by the appeals examiner, and such fees shall be deemed as part of the expenses of the administration of the Law, I.C., § 72-1338; he may pay costs necessarily incurred in bringing any civil action for the collection of any delinquent payment of contributions or penalties thereon, I.C., § 72-1355.
It is implicit in the foregoing that the’ director of the Employment Security Agency may pay the costs of the prevailing party in litigation commenced by or directed against the Agency as an incident to the Administration of the Employment Security Law.
The awarding of costs to a successful litigant against the Employment Security Agency, as well as against its predecessor in name, the Unemployment Compensa-, tion Division of the Industrial Accident Board, is not without precedent. See Ramsey v. Employment Security Agency, (Idaho. 1963) 379 P.2d 797;1 Saulls v. Employment Security Agency, (Idaho 1963) 377 P.2d 789;2 Johnson v. Employment Security Agency, 81 Idaho 560, 347 P.2d 764; Eytchison v. Employment Security Agency, 77 Idaho 448, 294 P.2d 593; Wolfgram v. Employment Security Agency, 75 Idaho 389, 272 P.2d 699; Claim of Sapp, 75 Idaho 65, 266 P.2d 1027; Mandes v. Employment Sec. Agency, 74 Idaho 23, 255 P.2d 1049; In re General Electric Co., 66 Idaho 91, 156 P.2d 190; Carstens Packing Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Division, Etc., 65 Idaho 370, 144 P.2d 203; Big Wood Canal Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Division, etc., 63 Idaho 785, 126 P.2d 15; Carstens Packing Co. v. Industrial Accident Board, 63 Idaho 613, 123 P.2d 1001; Phipps v. Boise Street Car Co., 61 Idaho 740, 107 P.2d 148.
This Court adheres to its award of costs, to appellant against respondent.
Respondent’s petition for rehearing is denied.
KNUDSON, C. J., and McQUADE, Mc-FADDEN and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.

. Ante, p. 395.

. Ante, p. 212.