Galindo v. Roach

GRAY, C.

This action was brought to recover money due for rent under the terms of a lease. A verdict was - returned and a judgment was entered in plaintiff’s favor for five hundred dollars and costs on the twenty-first day of January, 1897. A cost-bill was filed by plaintiff on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, claiming costs in an aggregate amount of four hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents. On the twentieth day of February, 1897, defendant’s motion to tax costs came regularly on for hearing, and after the taking of some testimony was continued to the 24th of the same month, ■on which last date, after taking further testimony, it was continued to the following day, the 25th. On said twenty-fifth day of February, 1897, the plaintiff moved the court to be permitted to file an amendment to his memorandum of costs

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and disbursements, and against the objection and exception of defendant the court made an order permitting the plaintiff to file an amendment to the cost-bill consisting of a single item as follows: “'Sheriff’s fees, digging and shipping beets to sugar factory, two hundred and forty-four dollars and five cents.” This amendment was duly verified. After taking some further testimony the court made an order taxing the1 costs at six hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-four cents, which sum. is the total of the amounts claimed in both the original cost-bill and the amendment thereto. The costs, as taxed, are included in the judgment. The defendant appeals from the judgment, from the order allowing the amendment of the cost-bill, and from the order taxing costs.

The plaintiff was entitled to recover his costs, but to do so> it was incumbent upon him to comply with the statute and claim his costs by delivering to the clerk and serving a memorandum thereof within five days after the verdict or notice of decision of the court. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1033.) “And a failure to claim such costs, or any item thereof, in the manner required by the statute is deemed to be a waiver of such costs, and precludes a recovery thereof.”

(Hotchkiss v. Smith,

108 Cal. 285;

Chapin v. Broder,

16 Cal. 403.) “The omission from section 1033 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the clause in section 510 of the practice act, which provided that a failure-by the prevailing party to file his memorandum of costs within the time limited should be deemed a waiver of his costs, is not a material circumstance. The code contemplates that such-shall be the result, since the only costs which the clerk is authorized to insert are those claimed and Taxed or ascertained/ in the manner provided.”