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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF~APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA~
FOURTH DISTRICT JANUARY TERM 1978
COUNTY OF ST. LUCIE and HARTFORD )
ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, )
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. Appellants, ) CASE NO. 77-2475
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v. )
) NOT FfNAt UN'I7L TI:~tE FYPtRES
WILLIAr! FRANKLIN B~tOWNING and ) T'O FILE F,FHEqR1~TG PETtTION
CONNIE BROWNING, ~ AI~'D, 1F FILED, DtSFO~rD OF.
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Appellees.. ) ~ -
Opinion filed riay 9, 1978. ~
Interlocutory appeal from the
Circuit Court for St. Lucie ~
County, Royce R. Lewis, Judge. _
Richard V. Neill of Neill, Griffin, ~
~ Jeffries & Lloyd Chartered, Ft. ~ ~
Pierce, for appellants.
James F: Littman of Littman ~ - ~
and Aarvin, P. A., Stuart, . -
for appellees. ~ ~
DAUKSCH, J. _
In this personal injury action a jury verdict was returned
~in favor of Appellees, the Plaintiffs below. The lower court .
~ taxed costs totalling $5,830.10 against Appellants. By this ~
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~ appeal, Appellants contend that some of the costs should not have
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been taxed against them. Specifically, Appellants object to the
following costs: the expense of copies of depositions, the cost
of obtaining miscellane ous hospital records, a medical docto~'s
witness fee for deposition, and.certain expert medical witnesses' ~
fees for testimony at trial. We will consider each cost in turn.
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COPIES OF DEPOSITIONS
In Florida Greyhound Lines v. Jones, 60 So. 2d 396 (Fla.
~ 1952), the Supreme Court held that the cost of copies of depositions
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~ taken in that case N as not assessable against the losing party.
~ See also Cohen v. Dennis, 209 So. 2d 465 (3 DCA 1968). However, ~
most cases concerning the assessment of deposition costs make~na
- distinction between oriqinals and copies. They refer only to
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