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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WHITMAN CO. v. TRAVERS BAILEY CO.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    November 24, 1905.)
    Costs—Discontinuance at Trial.
    Under Municipal Court Act, Laws 1902, pp. 1585, 1586, c. 580, § 332, subds. 3, 6, providing that where, on defendant’s nonappearance, plaintiff recovers judgment for more than $200 and less than $300, he shall be awarded $10 costs, and that, where defendant recovers on plaintiff’s nonappearance, costs shall be awarded defendant in the same manner, defendant in an action for between $200 and $300 is entitled to $10 costs, where plaintiff discontinues after commencement of trial.
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, First District.
    Action by the Whitman Company against the Travers Bailey Company. From an order denying a motion to correct an indorsement of the decision on the summons, defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Argued before SCOTT, P. J., and GIEDERSEEEVE and MacEEAN, JJ.
    Ferguson & Ferguson, for appellant.
    Bookstaver & Norton, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

After the trial had commenced and one witness had been examined, plaintiff moved to discontinue the action, which motion was granted, on payment of $10 costs. The defendant thereafter made a motion to correct the indorsement of the decision made by the justice on the summons by substituting $20 costs for $10 costs. The motion was denied, and . defendant appeals from the order denying the motion. Municipal Court Act, Laws 1902, pp. 1585, 1586, c. 580, § 332, subds. 3, 6, and Blum v. O’Connor (Sup.) 84 N. Y. Supp. 207, apply here. Where the summons demands between $200 and $300, and the action is discontinued, the defendant gets $10 costs.

Order affirmed, with costs and disbursements.