Court Opinion

ID: 8744822
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 11:02:20.704354+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:00:36.230184
License: Public Domain

LURTON, Circuit Judge.
Upon a former day of this term the decree of the circuit court was reversed, and costs taxed. The appellant has now filed a petition praying a retaxation of costs, as follows:
„ 1. That the amount paid clerk of the circuit court for transcript of record on appeal — $87.25—be taxed here as costs taxable to the appellee. This must be denied. Rule 31, par. 3, provides that “the costs of the transcript of record from the court below shall be taxable in that court as costs in the case.” 31 C. C. A. clxix., 90 Fed. clxix.
2. That $20.90, paid by appellant to the commissioner of patents for copies of patents for insertion in the printed record, be taxed as costs of appeal. This is allowed. It is part of the cost of printing the record, and therefore taxable here.
3. That the sum of $10.50, paid a surety company for furnishing appeal bond, be taxed as costs. This must be disallowed, as there is no authority for taxing such an item.
4. That the cost of printing appellant’s brief be taxed as costs. This must be disallowed.. It has never been the practice of either the supreme court or this court to allow as costs the disbursement of counsel for printing briefs. Ex parte Hughes, 114 U. S. 548, 5 Sup. Ct. 1008, 29 L. Ed. 281.
The application, so far as it relates to the cost of copies of patents, is allowed, and in all other respects denied.