Case ID: misc_8/html/0520-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McCarthy, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Warren, an Infant, Respondent, v. Raymond Chase, Appellant.
    (City Court of New York — General Term,
    May, 1894.)
    Disbursements are not taxable where the plaintiff recovers judgment for nominal damages only in an action specified in subdivision 3 of section 3228 of the Code. ■
    Appeal from order of Special Term, reversing taxation of costs by the clerk and allowing disbursements to the plaintiff..
    
      Thomas H. Rowlette, for respondent.
    
      Mooney c& Shipman, for appellant.
   McCarthy, J.

The decisions are uniform that disbursements as allowed by law were always allowed by law as costs to the party entitled' to recover costs.

They cannot, as in this case, exceed the damages. Code Civ. Proc. § 3228, subd. 3.

We are clear that the justice erred in allowing the insertion of the disbursements in this case.

The plaintiff, having recovered six cents damages, was only entitled to six cents costs, no matter what might be his disbursements.

The order appealed from should, therefore, be reversed, and the clerk’s taxation reinstated and affirmed.

Ehrlich, Ch. J., and Van Wyck, J., concur.

Order reversed and the clerk’s taxation reinstated and affirmed.