JOSEPH P. HADDAD, ADMINISTRATOR, PLAINTIFF, APPELLANT,
v.
BORDER EXPRESS, INC., DEFENDANT, APPELLEE

1st Cir. | 1962-05-22
No. 5909
303 F.2d 134 United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1962) Positive Treatment
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Holding

The court held that costs for unnecessary portions of an appellee's record appendix should not be taxed against the appellant, and individual plaintiffs whose appeals were not perfected should not be charged costs.


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Following a collision, multiple suits were filed. After jury verdicts for the defendant, plaintiffs appealed. The appellee incurred significant printi…

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Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

WOODBURY, Chief Judge, with whom HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge, joins (concurring) .

We do not disagree with what Judge Aldrich writes. We would like to point out, however, that our clerk taxed costs in this case in accordance with the court’s mandate and our Rule 33(2). No fault lies with him. It lies basically with counsel for the appellant in failing to complain in his brief of his opponent’s record appendix, and perhaps to some extent with the court for not being more alert to the situation and directing taxation of costs accordingly. This is not to suggest that Judge Aldrich should shoulder the blame. Decisions of the court are not solos but concertos. We should all be on the watch for excessive unnecessary printing.

However, while we might have let costs stand as taxed for failure of appellant’s counsel to complain promptly instead of waiting until costs had been taxed against him, we suppose it is not even now too late in this exceptional case for the court to take corrective action.


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