Case ID: ny-st-rep_53/html/0179-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Vah Wyck, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Jacob Hoffman Brewing Co., App’lt, v. Louis Volpe et al., Resp’ts.
    
      (City Court of New York, General Term,
    
    
      Filed June 19, 1893.)
    
    Costs—Inquest—Two trial eees.
    In this action an inquest was taken, which was afterwards opened and a trial had, resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff. The record showed that the inquest was “ duly taken,” the first judgment “ duly entered,” that the default was opened and final trial had atwhioh'the verdict for plaintiff was returned, and the final judgment, and nothing more. Held, that upon this record, the clerk properly taxed two trial fees.
    Appeal from order reversing taxation of two trial fees by the clerk.
    
      Campbell & Murphy, for app’lt; Wm. E. Morris, for resp’t.
   Vah Wyck, J.

It appears that on November 16 an inquest was taken which was thereafter opened, and the cause finally tiled on April 19, resulting in the verdict for plaintiff, upon which the judgment was entered after taxation of costs on notice. Upon this taxation the clerk allowed thirty dollars as trial fee for the inquest, and thirty dollars trial fee of the final trial, and from which defendant appealed to special term, where the clerk’s taxation of the first trial fee was reversed, and it is from such reversal that this appeal is taken. This order of reversal recites that the inquest was “ duly taken,” and the first judgment “ duly entered,” and that thereafter the defendants’ default was opened, and the final trial had at which was returned for plaintiff the verdict upon which the second and final judgment was entered. There is no other or further proof in the record as regards the inquest, the first judgment, the opening of defendants’ default, the final trial, or the second judgment. Upon the record on appeal the clerk’s taxation of two trial fees of thirty dollars each was correct, and should not have been reversed, for it has been repeatedly held that an inquest is such a trial as entitled plaintiff to a trial fee of thirty dollars. Wessels v. Carr, 22 Abb. N. C., 464.

The order appealed from is reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

McG-owh and Fitzsimons, JJ., concur.