Case ID: pa-d-c_14/html/0510-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Newcomb, P. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Weinberger v. Friedman.
    
      Morris B. Gelb, for plaintiff; Tinkham & Myers, for defendant.
    March 7, 1930.
   Newcomb, P. J.,

The question is on the regularity of the proceedings had by a justice of the peace.

On plaintiff’s claim of $50 judgment was entered against defendant “for the sum of $50 and $8.50 costs.”

This was erroneous. Costs are recoverable only as an incident to a judgment. They can not be both an incident to and also an integral part of the judgment debt: Garey and Pender v. Redmond, 4 Lacka. Jurist, 52.

This ground of objection is fatal and the other exceptions may be disregarded.

Judgment reversed.

From William A. Wilcox, Scranton, Pa.