Case ID: njl_3/html/0196-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court. — This", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MARSH against HENDRICKS.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    Judgment for costs of both parties, is error.
    The justice in rendering, judgment, had given judgment both for the plaintiff's and defendant's costs.
   By the Court. — This

judgment must be reversed. The justice erred in giving judgment for any more costs than that of the prevailing party. The prevailing party had no right to recover the costs laid out and expended by his adversary. The judgment is not a judgment rendered for the justice, the officers of the court, or the witnesses, but for the party. The prevailing [*] party recovers a judgment for the costs which he himself has legally expended, in and about this suit; what his adversary hath expended he hath his right to.

•Judgment reversed.