Title: Ravenwood Estates, Inc. v. Mason

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 90-170

                             MARCH TERM, 1991


Ravenwood Estates, Inc.           }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                  }          Unit No. 1, Bennington Circuit
                                  }
Karen Mason                       }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. 178-12-89Bc



             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:


     Plaintiff is the owner of a mobile home park in Bennington and appeals
from an order that attorney's fees incurred in the course of the eviction of
defendant were not "costs" to be borne by defendant within the meaning of 12
V.S.A. { 4773.  We affirm that order, but on cross-appeal we reverse the
court's order directing that defendant pay rent into court during the pend-
ency of an appeal pursuant to 12 V.S.A. { 4853a.

     According to the stipulated facts, the court entered judgment in the
eviction action in favor of plaintiff for $680 in rent arrears and $62.70
in costs and sheriff's fees.  A judgment was also entered in plaintiff's
favor for $907.50 in attorney's fees, but the court allowed redemption of
the tenancy under { 4773 without requiring payment of the attorney fee
judgment, since the court ruled that statutory costs did not include such
fees.  The court was correct.  In re Appeal of Gadhue, 149 Vt. 322,