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New York Supreme Court, 1942

Jorgensen v. Standard Oil Co.

Jorgensen v. Standard Oil Co.
New York Supreme Court · Decided June 30, 1942
178 Misc. 740; 36 N.Y.S.2d 318; 1942 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1791

Counsel

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann [Walter P. Hickey of counsel], for" the appellant., William L. Standard [Louis H. Rubinstein of counsel], for the respondents.

Jorgensen v. Standard Oil Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Section 170 of the Municipal Court Code does not authorize the taxation of disbursements incurred in resisting an application to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. Even if the section expressly permitted taxation of the item-in question, it would be unenforcible as an unauthorized restraint upon free access to the United States Supreme Court. (Missouri Pacific R. Co. v. Larabee, 234 U. S. 459.) The cost of printing briefs may not even be taxed as a disbursement in the .United States Supreme Court (Ex Parte Hughes, 114 U. S. 548; American Trust Co. v. Speers Sands & Clay Works, 60 F. [2d] 994, 998).

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs, and motion granted.

All concur. . Present — Hammer, Shientag and Miller, JJ.

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