AYCRIGG v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6299, 6309, 6314.

124 F.Supp. 416 (1954)

B. M. AYCRIGG and Helen F. Aycrigg, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Ina M. WELLS as executrix of the estate of Walter A. Kynoch, deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. CROCKER FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO, as trustee under the last will and testament of Roscoe R. Leslie, deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. California, N. D.

October 1, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace B. Wulff, Victor L. Diepenbrock, of Devlin, Diepenbrock & Wulff, Sacramento, Robert W. Steel, Marysville, Cal., for plaintiffs.

John Lynch, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendant.


OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

Having recovered judgment under a special act of Congress, infra, the plaintiffs in the three above-entitled causes seek to tax costs in the sum of $4,304.25.

The books are virtually unanimous that, in order to subject the sovereign to liability for court costs, there must be clear and unequivocal statutory authorization. Such authorization is not to be inferred, however tempting the inference may be. It must be plainly...

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