New York Court of Chancery October 15, 1817 (Williams v. Wilkins)

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said the cases had been reviewed in Rattray v. George, (16 Vesey, 232.) and there was found to be a great variety of contradictory decisions upon the subjects of pauper costs, and the result was that the court had a discretion in each case. Here was no very unreasonable delay in the executors, and the plaintiffs ought not to recover dives costs, but only the actual expenses .