Case Name: Dixon v. Pierce
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1789-09
Citations: 1 Root 138
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dixon v. Pierce.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 138–138

Head Matter:
WINDHAM COUNTY,
SEPTEMBER TERM, A. D. 1789.
Dixon v. Pierce.
Where a judgment is severable it may be reversed in part. The-illegal part of a bill of cost reversed and the judgment affirmed as to the damages and legal costs.
ERROR. Pierce brought an action to the County Court against Dixon, for riding over bis daughter, a minor, whereby she was much hurt, and he put to cost in her cure. Verdict and judgment was, that the plaintiff in said action recover fourteen shillings damage, and cost: Cost taxed at £5 17s. 3d.
Error assigned — That no more cost than damages ought to have been allowed. Plea nothing erroneous.
Judgment — Manifest error; -and judgment reversed as-to the cost over the sum of the damages.

Opinion:
This is a case within the statute, where no- more cost than' damages is to be recovered; and as the severance may be made, the court reversed the judgment only as to that part which was-illegal, viz. all the cost over the sum of the damages.