Case ID: johns-cas_1/html/0029-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Vredenbergh against Hallett & Bowne.
    Where the cause of action is such as to carry interest, and judgment is delay- . ed after verdict, the plaintiff is entitled to interest on the amount of the verdict, to the time of the taxation of costs, after judgment ; and the interest is to be -taxed with the costs, de incremento.
    
    Ti-ie plaintiff obtained a verdict some time since, on which judgment was not rendered until this term. The action was on a policy of insurance, upon which the plaintiff was entitled to interest on the amount of the loss sustained, from the time it ought to have been paid: The interest was accordingly included in the sum found by the jury, and calculated by them, agreeably to the practice of the court, down to the term subsequent to the verdict. After the trial, a case was made for the opinion of the court, which was de- 1 layed for argument, and was not decided until the present • term.
   Per Curiam.

The plaintiff must be allowed the interest on the amount of the verdict, until the time of taxing the costs in this action, and the same must be taxed, together with the costs. *

In all actions, founded on contracts carrying interest, and delayed under similar circumstances, the . like interest may,, in like manner, be taxed.* 
      
      
        Lord v. The Mayor &c. of New York, 3 Hill, 430, n. (a) and references. People v. Gaine, 1 Johns. R. 343. See also Bissel v. Hopkins, 4 Cowen, 53, but is otherwise when the plaintiff has been the cause of delay. Williams v. Smith, 2 Caines’ R. 253.