Court Opinion

ID: 9599406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:18:32.938251+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:45.075692
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring and dissenting) .
I concur except for the main opinion’s gratuitous rule anent the expense of taking depositions being assessable costs sometimes and no costs at all at other times, — to which part I dissent. So doing I refer to my dissent in the case cited in the opinion —Lawson v. General Plumbing, particularly Footnote 2, — for the reasons supporting my position. Costs are a statutory matter, and depositions are not included in our statutes, which are specific. If they are an item of costs there seems to be no reason for not including a lawyer’s airplane ticket to Honolulu and back incident to the taking of a deposition.