Durborrow's Appeal
Durborrow's Appeal
Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered
We find nothing to correct in the taxation of the costs below, at the instance of this appellant. The fee-bill in equity, adopted in Philadelphia in 1844, was not extended by any law to the other parts of the state. It was not until 1857 the equity jurisdiction was extended to the remainder of the state. The act declared that the Courts of Common Pleas in the several counties, in addition to the powers and jurisdictions then vested in them, should have “ the same chancery powers and jurisdictions which were then by law vested in the Court of Common Pleas or District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia.” This did not carry the rules of these courts into other counties, but merely the same powers and jurisdictions, among which was the
Taxation affirmed.
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