Case Name: Rebecca Goldstein, Appellant, v. Charles Greenberg et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1896-09
Citations: 18 Misc. 61
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rebecca Goldstein, Appellant, v. Charles Greenberg et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 61–61

Head Matter:
Rebecca Goldstein, Appellant, v. Charles Greenberg et al., Respondents.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
September, 1896.)
Appeal — Modification o£ judgment.
Where there is a mere error in a matter of figures and a new trial will not change the result, a judgment may be modified even by increasing the amount of the recovery.
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the justice of the Fourth District Court in her favor, in an action for wages other than as a domestic servant, in which judgment the justice has omitted to insert $5 additional costs.
Isaac A. Hourwick, for appellant.
Abraham D. Levy, for respondents.

Opinion:
Daly, P. J.
As the action was for wages earned by a female employed other than as a domestic servant, and the amount of damages recovered was less than $10, plaintiff is entitled to $5 additional costs, and the justice should have inserted that amount in the judgment. Consol. Act, chap. 410, Laws 1882, § 1424 and 1420. As the respondent does not dispute this, and there is no question upon which a new trial need be ordered, we shall direct that the judgment be modified by adding the $5 additional costs.
Where there is a mere error in a matter of figures and a new trial will not change thé result, a judgment may be modified even by increasing the amount of the recovery. Golde v. Whipple & Co., 7 App. Div. 48; 39 N. Y. Supp. 964.
The judgment modified accordingly, without costs to either party.
McAdam and Bischoff, JJ., concur.
Judgment modified by adding to plaintiff's recovery $5 additional costs, and as modified affirmed, without costs."