Case Name: Earl Oswald, Appellee, v. The St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company, Appellant
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1919-02-08
Citations: 104 Kan. 281
Docket Number: No. 21,949
Parties: Earl Oswald, Appellee, v. The St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 104
Pages: 281–282

Head Matter:
No. 21,949.
Earl Oswald, Appellee, v. The St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company, Appellant.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.
Appeal — Question of Costs Only — Appeal Dismissed. A landowner, on appeal from an award of condemnation commissioners, recovered the exact amount of the award. The trial court refused to retax the costs, amounting to $125, to the plaintiff, and the railway company seeks to appeal. Held, that the appeal will not lie. (Civ. Code, § 566, Gen. Stat. 1915, § 7470.)
Appeal from Washington district court; John C. Hogin, judge.
Opinion filed February 8, 1919.
Dismissed.
A. J. Freeborn, of Washington, Robert A. Brown, and Richard L. Douglas, both of St. Joseph, Mo., for the appellant.
J. F. Thompson, of Washington, for the appellee.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
West, J.:
The plaintiff appealed from the award of commissioners appointed by the district court to condemn a certain ground for depot purposes, and recovered exactly the same amount awarded him by the commissioners. The railroad company moved to retax the costs amounting to $125, and from an order overruling this motion, it appeals.
While the motion should have been granted, an appeal cannot be had on a mere matter of costs. (Civ. Code, § 566, Gen. Stat. 1915, §7470; Richmond v. Brummie, 52 Kan. 247; 34 Pac. 783; Hazelwood v. Mendenhall, 97 Kan. 635, 156 Pac. 696; Shannon v. Abrams, 98 Kan. 26, 157 Pac. 449.)
It is also our duty to decline the assumption of jurisdiction, although the point is not raised by the parties. (Skoin v. Limerick, 50 Kan. 645, 31 Pac. 1051.)
The appeal is dismissed.