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Wash. Rev. Code § 4.84.090 (2026)

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The prevailing party, in addition to allowance for costs, as provided in RCW 4.84.080, shall also be allowed for all necessary disbursements, including the fees of officers allowed by law, the fees of witnesses, the necessary expenses of taking depositions, by commission or otherwise, and the compensation of referees. The court shall allow the prevailing party all service of process charges in case such process was served by a person or persons not an officer or officers. Such service charge shall be the same as is now allowed or shall in the future be allowed as fee and mileage to an officer. The disbursements shall be stated in detail and verified by affidavit, and shall be served on the opposite party or his or her attorney, and filed with the clerk of the court, within ten days after the judgment: PROVIDED, The clerk of the court shall keep a record of all witnesses in attendance upon any civil action, for whom fees are to be claimed, with the number of days in attendance and their mileage, and no fees or mileage for any witness shall be taxed in the cost bill unless they shall have reported their attendance at the close of each day's session to the clerk in attendance at such trial.
[ 2011 c 336 s 123; 1949 c 146 s 1; 1905 c 16 s 1; Code 1881 s 513; 1877 p 109 s 517; 1869 p 124 s 465; 1854 p 202 s 375; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 482.]

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Witness fees and mileage: Chapter 2.40 RCW.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 36 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1955–2025 · leading case: State v. Ralph Williams' North West Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., 553 P.2d 423 (Wash. 1976).
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State v. Ralph Williams' North West Chrysler Plymouth, Inc., 553 P.2d 423 (Wash. 1976). · cites it 6× “Appellants contend the trial court granted costs to respondent in violation of RCW 4.84.090. [8] RCW 4.84.090 does not apply to this action.”
Steele v. Lundgren, 982 P.2d 619 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 6× “1 The Petition for Fees Was Not Barred by RCW 4.84.090 As Untimely Lundgren first argues that the trial court erred when it awarded Steele her attorney fees because her request for them was untimely.”
Estep v. Hamilton, 201 P.3d 331 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 4× “With respect to witness fees, RCW 4.84.090 authorizes the prevailing party to recover witness mileage costs.”
Nuttall v. Dowell, 639 P.2d 832 (Wash. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 4× “Additionally, plaintiff's request for costs not ordinarily recoverable under our general statutory costs provision, RCW 4.84.090, was denied. Although the trial court recognized that it might possess authority to award these extraordinary costs under the CPA provision, RCW 19.”
Johnson v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 159 Wash. App. 18 (Wash. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 2× “Johnson argued that deposition costs are not disbursements under RCW 4.84.090. Chevron agreed and submitted a reduced cost bill.”
Ellis v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 567 P.2d 224 (Wash. 1977). · cites it 4× “Pertinent here is the additional language which provides "the fees of medical and other witnesses and the costs shall be payable out of the administrative fund of the department.”
Gorre v. City of Tacoma, 324 P.3d 716 (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 3× “010 and RCW 4.84.090 26 , and (3) to rule on the City’s motion to strike and to exclude inadmissible documents and unsupported assertions.”
Pannell v. Food Servs. of Am., 810 P.2d 952 (Wash. Ct. App. 1991). · cites it 2× “RCW 4.84.090 requires that a cost bill be served and filed within 10 days after the judgment.”
Mitchell v. Washington State Inst. of Pub. Policy, 225 P.3d 280 (Wash. Ct. App. 2009). “482, now codified as RCW 4.84.090). ¶53 Absent clear language to the contrary, we will not mechanically apply CR 78(e) to deprive a litigant of costs to which he is justly entitled or to enrich a litigant with costs *824 that he has unjustly secured.”
Doolittle v. Small Tribes of W. Washington, Inc., 971 P.2d 545 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 3× “Costs and Reasonable Expenses In its cross-appeal, Sells contends that by failing to give it notice of entry of the final judgment entered on March 15, 1996, the trial court erroneously denied it the right to file a cost bill under RCW 4.”
Johnson v. Chevron USA, Inc., 244 P.3d 438 (Wash. Ct. App. 2010). “Johnson argued that deposition costs are not disbursements under RCW 4.84.090. Chevron agreed and submitted a reduced cost bill.”
Pearson v. Schubach, 763 P.2d 834 (Wash. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “RCW 4.84.090 5 6provides that trial witnesses *723 must report their attendance.”
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