Case ID: wend_2/html/0290-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      By the Court, Savage, C.. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People, on the relation of Coleman Mailer, vs. The Orange Common Pleas.
    The costs on .jm^ce’s^judgdollars besides ments, where the recovery does not exceed $25, and toYhe^wiz" ing party, whether defendant or plaintiff
    Motion for a mandamus. Mailer obtained a judgment against one Fuller before a justice; Fuller appealed, and on ^le common pleas recovered a judgment against Mailer for $6,75, and had his costs taxed at about $20, besides disbursements. \On the taxation before the judge, Maijer |nsisted. that Fuller was entitled to but $7 besides dis-w .bursements ; the judge decided otherwise, and on an appeal the common pleas confirmed the taxation. A motion was now ma(je for a mandamus directing a re-taxation. ■ ■ > . 11• "
   By the Court, Savage, C.. J.

, The costs on appeal are limited by statute to seven dollars, besides disbursements, where the recovery does not exceed $25, and then are given to the prevailing party, whether defendant or plaintiff. (I Wendell, 290.) Let an alternative mandamus issue. •