MONICK v. MELNICOFF

No. 2184.

144 A.2d 381 (1958)

George A. MONICK and David Kahn, Appellants, v. Ben Ivan MELNICOFF and John B. Poindexter, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine M. Staley, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Ben Ivan Melnicoff, Washington, D. C., and John B. Poindexter, appellees, pro se.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal raises the question of an attorney's personal liability to pay the cost of a stenographic transcript ordered during the course of a proceeding in which the attorney appears on behalf of his client. Before stating the facts of this particular case we shall discuss the general principles of law on the subject.

The question usually arises in one of three situations. The first of these is when the attorney in ordering the transcript...

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