Libbey v. Holloway

The opinion of the court was delivered by Smith, J.: The appellant does not appear to have obtained any transcript of the stenographer’s notes of the testimony and proceedings in this case, as authorized by section 574 of the civil code, nor has he served upon the appellee any abstract as required by section 576, and by Rule 9 of this court. It should be certified and signed as required by Railway Co. v. Conlon, 77 Kan. 324, 94 Pac. 148, and should refer to pages of the transcript or record where the statements may be verified. As the case of the appellant is presented, it is impossible for the court to ascertain the facts as to many of the statements in the brief. There is, however, a judgment for costs presented in the record, and which is not required to be included in [164] a transcript. We can, therefore, consider only the question whether there was error in the judgment for costs as claimed by appellant. The county surveyor had made a survey and filed a report thereof, and an appeal therefrom was taken. Upon a hearing of the appeal the survey was set aside and another surveyor was appointed by the court to make the survey. The second survey was made and a report thereof filed and approved. The appellant contends, correctly, that the adjudication of costs as between the parties to an action was not known at the common law, but each party was left liable for the costs made by himself. Section 2276 of the General Statutes of 1909, however, authorizes a county surveyor to apportion such costs among landowners affected thereby according to their respective interests. Section 4 of chapter 177 of the Laws of 1879 provided for the taxation of costs on appeal from a survey, but, in effect, this section was repealed by the omission thereof in the reenactment of the laws relating to surveys, published' as chapter 89 of the Laws of 1891 (Gen. Stat. 1909, §§2275, 2276). See Dent v. Simpson, 81 Kan. 217, 105 Pac. 542. As to the taxing of costs, there being no other statutory direction, the case falls within the provisions of section 615 of the civil code, and the judgment will not be disturbed, under the well-recognized rule, unless the discretion of the court was abused, which we do not find. The paragraph of appellant's brief beginning and ending on page 42 thereof is stricken from the files. The journal entries show that the case has been fully decided, and the judgment is affirmed.