McArthur

This cause is before us upon an appeal from an order settling plaintiff’s cost bill and refusing to strike out certain items. The record shows that in an action tried in the superior court of the county of Shasta, both the plaintiff and the defendants were awarded their costs, and at the conclusion of the trial, both the plaintiff and the defendants filed their cost bills in which they set out as an item of costs the expense of one-half of the transcript of the testimony taken in the cause just referred to, which transcript was ordered by the court under the provisions of section 274 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The record shows that at the beginning of the trial the court ordered that an original transcript of the testimony be made by the reporter from day to day, and the expense thereof charged to the respective parties in equal proportions, to wit, at 10 cents a folio, being 20 cents a folio for the transcript ordered by the court. The record further shows that at the time of the making of the order just referred to the plaintiff and the defendants also ordered one copy each of the transcript, at a cost of 6V2 cents per folio. On the following day the record shows that the…