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Show STENOGRAPHER MAY NOT GET EXTRA FEES In the future court stenographers cannot can-not enter into special contracts for reporting report-ing and transcribing testimony taken In suits. Charles M. Dull entered Into a contract con-tract with the Mammoth Mining company mnA Kfltnu.l MnTntvi. fi rAnnrt and t r n - scribe the testimony taken in Hhe suit of the Grand Central Mining company against the Mammoth Mining company, tried In the Fifth Judicial court at Nephl, in November, 1900. For this service Mr. Dull received a stipulation signed by the attorneys in the case in which he was to receive $10 a day for reporting the proceedings. pro-ceedings. 15 cents for each folio of evidence evi-dence transcribed and 7Vs centa for additional addi-tional folios transcribed. The maximum fee allowed by law is $8 a day and 10 cents a folio, but as the case promised to be a hard one to report, the attorneys agreed to the $10 a day and 15 cents a folio. The statutory fees were paid, but the attorneys refused to pay the 6 cents per folio extra agreed upon. Dull then brought suit and obtained judgment for $627.40 and an appeal waa taken by the defendants. In the decision handed down by the Supreme Su-preme court yesterday the decision of the lower court is reversed. The Supreme court holds that Dull was entitled to the fees allowed him by law, and no more. The case was remanded to the lower court, with Instructions to dismiss the suit with costs to the plaintiff. |