Kuranda v Beckett & Co Ltd [1915] ZATPD 88 (15 November 1915)

Costs. - Taxation. - Magistrate' s court judgment.- Defendant in default. - Process-in-aid. -Notice of taxation. --Law 12 of 1899, sec. 3.

Where judgment by default is obtained in a magistrate's court, the costs of an ex parle application in the Supreme Court for process-in-aid of such judgment can only be recovered atter taxation on due notice to the judgment debtor. Semble : That notice of taxation of the bill of costs of a magistrate's court judgment should -be given to the judgment debtor even though the judgment was
obtained against him in default of appearance. Coetzee v. Feitelberg (1907,T.H. 147), commented on.