Case Name: Louis Waldstreicher, Respondent, v. Louis A. Solomon and Others, Individually and as Executors, etc., of Morris Solomon, Deceased, and Others, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-06-29
Citations: 127 A.D. 364
Docket Number: 
Parties: Louis Waldstreicher, Respondent, v. Louis A. Solomon and Others, Individually and as Executors, etc., of Morris Solomon, Deceased, and Others, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 364–367

Head Matter:
Louis Waldstreicher, Respondent, v. Louis A. Solomon and Others, Individually and as Executors, etc., of Morris Solomon, Deceased, and Others, Appellants.
Second Department,
June 29, 1908.
Costs ^subdivision 5, séction 3228, Coiié Civil Procedure, construed — recovery of less than $500.
Subdivision. 5 of section 3228 of the Code of Civil Procedure does" not require a plaintiff, resident of Kings county, to bring his action'against residents of Yew-York county in the City Court of Yew York when possible in order to be entitled to, costs .and disbursements in the Supreme Court if the" recovery be under $500. The counties of Yew-York and Kings stand separate in the application of said section.
Hooker, J., dissented, with opinion.
Appeal by the defendants, Louis A. Solomon and" others, individually and" as-executors, etc., and others, from ail order of the Supreme "Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clei’k of the county of Kings on the 19th day" of March, 1908, directing a retaxation of costs. .
Edward Kaufmann, for the appellants.
Isidor Wasservogel, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Gaynor, J.:
. Section. 3228 of the Code of Civil Procedure (sub. 5) does" riot mean that- a plaintiff'in Kings county is called upon to bring his action in the City Court of Mew York,,which is in Mew.York county, when hé ¡can, as a test of whether he may recover costs if he recover less .than $500. Each county stands separate in the application of the statute. .
The order should be affirmed.
Jenks, Rich and Miller, JJ., concurred; Hooker, J., read for reversal. , . , - "