Case ID: ny-sup-ct_13/html/0234-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Davis, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES G. POWERS and another, Appellants, v. ANTON GROSS, Respondent.
    
      Costs — Code, §§ 30Aa/nd 305.
    Where, upon the trial of an action brought to recover damages for the wrongful conversion of personal property, alleged in the complaint to be worth $500, evidence is given tending to show that it was worth more than $400, but the jury bring in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for thirty-five dollars only, held, that the defendant is entitled to recover costs.
    
      Seaman v. Gleckner (10 S. C. [3 Hun], 119) followed.
    Appeal from an order made at the Special Term, denying a motion to readjust costs, and to set aside the taxation of costs by the clerk in the defendant’s favor.
    
      
      Estes <& Barnard, for appellants. J. J. Perry, for respondent.
   Opinion by

Davis, P. J.

Brady and. Daniels, JJ., concurred.

Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.