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

Case No. 17,984.
    WOODROW v. COLEMAN.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 199.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1804.
    Costs.
    Full costs will be given in covenant.
    [See Cases Nos. 17,982 and 17,983.]
    Motion, by the defendant’s counsel, that the clerk be ordered to tax only so much costs as damages. New Rev. Code, p. 109, § 17.
    The action was covenant, and verdict for plaintiff, one cent.
    Mr. Swann, for the plaintiff,
    contended that the section applies to actions of trespass. Gilb. Cas.; Bac. Abr. “Costs.”
   THE COURT

gave judgment with full costs.