
    Greener v. Steinway et al.
    
    
      (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    
    November 20, 1885.)
    Taxation op Costs — Docket Fees.
    When a demurrer to a hill in equity is sustained, a docket fee of $30 is taxable in favor of defendant.
    In Equity. Exceptions to clerk’s taxation of costs.
    
      Ralph W. Morrison, for plaintiff.
    
      George W. .Qotlerill and Arthur v. Briescn, for defendants.
   Shipman, J.

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.  