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to discuss. It must suffice that the plea avers that the entire property covered by said mortgage, and a subsequent general assignment, is now in the custody of a state oirouit court, and is in the course of administration by it. The case of Taylor v. Carryl, 20 How. 583, seems to be conclusive on the point. True, the doctrine announced in that case was brought into apparent doubt in the case of Payne v. Hook, 7 Wall. 425, which latter case was so far modified by the subsequent rulings of the United States supreme court in the same case of Hook v. Payne, 14 Wall. 252, as practically to leave the prior doctrine, which is more in accord with our systems of jurisprudence, undisturbed. Inasmuch .as the state circuit court has full control of the property and funds involved, and is administering the same through its duly-qualified officer, not only comity, but sound principles of law, require that there should be no such oonflicts of jurisdiction as are sought in this case. Demurrer overruled, and bill dismissed.
In re STRAUSS v. MEYER and others.1 (Oircuit Oourt, E. D. Mi8B<Jttri. December 3, 1884.; EQUITY PRACTICE-COSTS-ATTORNEY'S FEE.
No attorney's fees for the examination of witnesses, called before a master or special examiner, are taxable as costs.
In Equity. Suit for the infringement of a patent. Motion to rebx costs because of the allowance of an attorney's fee of $2.50 for each witness examined before the examiner appointed herein to take testimony prior to the granting of a preliminary injunction, and for each wit· ness examined before the master appointed to ascertain the damages sustained by the complainant, and the profits made by the defendant from the infringement complained of. S. Obermeyer and Taylor et Pollard, for plaintiff. Lee et Chandler, for defendants. TREAT, J. The party is not entitled to counsel fees for witnesses called before the master, and I doubt whether he is entitled to fees for witnesses called before the special examiner. Testimony taken before a special examiner is not in the nature of depositions taken at different places where a party may be compelled to .go, and I will allow I1othingof the kind. I think it is outside of the fee-bill, and outside of the reason of it. The party has to appear and conduct the case before the special examiner who is appointed therefor, and IReported by·Benj. F. Rex, Esq., of the St. Louis bar.
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
to charge fees for the witnesses called before the special examiner is outside of the rule of taking depositions. If such depositions were taken elsewhere than before the special examiner, then you are enti· tled to $2.50 for each witness.
DURHAM
v.
FIRE
&
MARINE
INs. 00.
(Oircuit Court, D. Oregon. 1. SUIT TO REFORM A CONTRACT.
December 31, 1884.,
In a suit to reform a writLen instrument it mllst be shown that the mistake is mutual; and therefore it must appear from the allegations of the hill what the of the parties was, and wherein the writing fails to embody it.
2.
FmE INSUHANCE-POLICy-MISTAKE-REFORMATION.
A bill brought to reform a policy of insurance stated that the several owners of a cel'tain warehouse applied to the defendant for insurance against fire on their interests in said property, with loss, if any, payable to one of them; and th,tt "thereupon" the defendant issued its policy on the interest of that one alone, instead of all. Held, on demurrer to the bill for want of equity, that it diJ not appear that the defendant ever agreed to insure the interest of but the one of the owners, and therefore it was not shown that the mistake was mutual.
Snit to Reform a Policy of Insurance. George H. Will-iams, for plaintiff, and the latter in propria persona. Paul R. Deady, for defendant.
DEADY, J. This suit is brought to reform a policy of insurance issued by the defendant on July 31, 1883, whereby it undertook to indemnify Theo. H. Liebe against loss by fire, for the period of one year from the date thereof, of his interest, not exceeding $4,000 in value, in a two-story frame building, then in course of construction and to be occupied as a grain warehouse, and known as the "Dayton Mills Warehouse," in Dayton, Oregon, for the premium of $100 in hand paid. The bill alleges that on the day the policy issued, and prior thereto, William Burnell, Theo. H. Liebe, E. S. Larsen, Elizabeth Crane, and A. A. Crane were the owners of a certain parcel of real property, on which was situated a grist-mill and the warehouse in questi0n; that on said day said Burnell, "on behalf of himself and co-owners, composing said Dayton Flouring Mills Company," applied to the agent of the defendant at Portland for insurance "on a warehouse, then in process of construction by said company on their said lands," with loss, if any, payable to said Liebe; that thereupon, "in consideration of the payment by the said insured" of the premium, the defendant, by its agent, issued the policy in question, and "thereby undertook to insure the said Dayton Flouring Mills Company against loss or damage by fire, to the amount of $4,000, upon the said warehouse;" that, "by soma oversight, misapprehension, or mistake" on the part of the agent of the defendant, said policy was issued in the name of