Case Name: VAN BUSSUM v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1896-02-26
Citations: 37 N.Y.S. 665
Docket Number: 
Parties: VAN BUSSUM v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 37
Pages: 665–666

Head Matter:
(16 Misc. Rep. 40.)
VAN BUSSUM v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department.
February 26, 1896.)
Appeal from Justice—Return—Tender of Costs.
Where a judgment is reversed, and the case remanded to a justice, and o.n new trial he dismisses the complaint, on tender of the costs of the second trial, as provided by Code Civ. Proc. § 3047, without tender of the costs of the former appeal, the justice must make a return of the appeal.
Action by Dixon Van Bussum against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff. Motion to compel the justice to make a return in appeal. Granted.
Argued before DALY, P. J., and McADAM and BISOHOFF, JJ.
J. Baldwin Hands, for appellant.
Ritch, Woodford, Vovee & Wallace, for respondent.

Opinion:
DALY, P. J.
When the judgment of a justice of a district court is reversed, and a new trial is ordered, with costs to abide the event, the party prevailing upon the new trial becomes entitled to them immediately upon the entry of the new judgment in the district court, and is then entitled to have them taxed by the clerk of the appellate court, and to collect them. There is no practice by which they can be inserted in the judgment of the district court, because (1) they are not awarded by the justice; (2) because the party entitled to them cannot be ascertained until that judgment has been entered, for the judgment is the event upon which they depend; (3) they must be taxed by the clerk of the appellate court in which they are awarded, and they cannot be taxed until the judgment of the district court entitling the party to tax them is produced to the clerk. As the judgment upon the new trial in the district court should include only those costs which the justice has power to award, a .party desiring to appeal is not required, as a condition of appealing, to pay other costs than those so awarded.- The Code provides that the appellant must pay the costs of the action included in the judgment (section 3047), and this means, of course, the costs of the action properly included in the judgment, i. e. those awarded by the justice.
In the case before us, the justice, upon the new trial, dismissed the complaint, and entered a judgment for $80.15 costs, which included the costs awarded by the general term of the court of common pleas on the appeal from the former judgment, and $12.25 costs and disbursements of the second trial. The appellant' tendered the $12.25 to the justice, which was refused, and the justice declined to make a return until the whole of the $80.15 was paid. The appellant is right in his contention, and upon payment of $12.25 the return should be made.
The motion is granted. As the question has not been determined before, no costs of motion will be allowed. All concur.