Case ID: johns_19/html/0270-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jackson, ex dem. Pinkney, against Pell and Underhill.
    Where the trial pujffjnpay! the”11 defendant theb°cosís° Pin-starter,without any previous demand of the plaintiff, &c ; but if he negleets to do so, and the plaintiff has the costs regularly tax-mma”is Pde" defendant’s j refusedWhiCthe plaintiff is entitied t^ an atiachment imgainst*tíre defendant.
    THIS cause was noticed for trial at the last Westchester circuit. When the cause was called on, it was put off on motion of the defendants’ counsel, on the ground of the absence °f a material witness, upon payment of costs. The costs were, afterwards, regularly taxed, and payment of the 3 70 J 7 * J bill'demanded of the defendants’ attorney, who refused to J ’ nay it. No demand oí payment was made of the defendants#
    
      Foot, for the plaintiff)
    read an affidavit, stating the above facts, and moved for an attachment against the defendants, c*ted Jackson, ex dem. Lewis, v. Lowry, 2 Johns. Cases, 114. and Stansbury v. Durell, 1 Johns. Cases, 396.
    
      Johnson, contra,
    said, that to make the defendants liable ^ an attachment, payment of the bill of costs ought to have been demanded of them personally. 1 Dunl. Pr. 353, 354.
   Per Curiam.

This case is sui generis, and distinguishable from the ordinary case, where a party is ordered to pay costs. The defendant asked for a favour, which was granted to him, upon the payment of costs. That was the condition on which the trial of the cause was put off; and it ought to have been, performed by the defendant, without any previous demand or request of the plaintiff. The costs ought to have been paid instanter ; and it was the duty of the defendant to seek the plaintiff, and tender the costs, without waiting for a formal demand of them. The costs were regularly taxed, and payment of the bill demanded of the defendants’ attorney, who attended the taxation, having been previously served with a copy of the bill, and notice of the taxation. The case of Jackson, ex dem. Lewis, v. Lowry, (2 Johns. Cases, 114.) is in point, to show that the demand of the costs of the attorney was regular, and that an attachment will lie in this case.

Rule granted.