Greener v. Steinway

The exception to the clerk’s taxation of costs, in disallowing a docket fee of $20, upon a decree for costs in favor of the defendant, upon a successful demurrer to the complainants’ bill, is sustained. The defendant’s right to a docket fee of $20 is sustained upon the authority of Wooster v. Handy, 23 Blatchf. 112, 23 Fed. Rep. 49; The Anchoria, 23 Fed. Rep. 669; McLean v. Clark, Id. 861; Price v. Coleman, 22 Fed. Rep. 694; and Scharff v. Levy, 112 U. S. 711, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 360.