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

SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM.
    June, 1849.
    Before Edmonds, Justice.
    Woodward v. Grier.
    The allowance of a percentage by way of additional costs is made by this court in all actions prosecuted by attachment against non-resident debtors.
    This was an action for a money demand against a nonresident debtor. The proceeding being by an attachment in the ordinary form, judgment had been entered for want of an answer.
    Chester, for plaintiff,
    moved for the allowance of a percentage on the amount of the claim by way of additional costs, not because this was an extraordinary or difficult case, but because the proceeding by attachment against a non-resident debtor entailed more trouble than an action against a resident.
   Edmonds, J.:

As there was no defense, and as there was nothing extraordinary or difficult in the action, I doubted if the allowance could be made. I have consulted with my brethren on the bench, and they agree with me, that the allowance may be made in actions prosecuted by attachment against non-residents, as this has been, even although, as in this case, the action is on a money demand, and of the most ordinary character, and no defense is interposed. • The motion will therefore be granted to allow ten per cent on the amount of the claim.

Order accordingly.