Sec. 2549. Reasonable and actual fees paid for depositions of witnesses filed in any clerk's office and for the certified copies of documents or papers recorded or filed in any public office shall be allowed in the taxation of costs only if, at the trial or when damages were assessed, the depositions were read in evidence, except for impeachment purposes, or the documents or papers were necessarily used.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2549
Depositions and certified copies; fees taxable as costs
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 218 Mich. App. 591 - Portelli v. I R Construction Products Co. (1996)
Most recently applied in 326 Mich. App. 641 - Ron Vanalstine v. Land O'Lakes Purina Feeds LLC (December 2018)
1961, Act 236, Eff
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