Case Name: Nathan Leonard against Eli Freeman
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 171
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nathan Leonard against Eli Freeman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 171–171

Head Matter:
Nathan Leonard against Eli Freeman.
ALBANY,
August, 1805.
IT appeared on the return to the certiorari, that the action in the court below, and in which a recovery had taken place, was instituted for expenses incurred in going to Albany, to swear to an answer to a bill filed by the now plaintiff, against the present defendant.
The court of Chancery has exclusive jurisdiction over the question of costs accrued in that court.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
The judgment must be reversed. The court of Chancery has the exclusive right to determine questions of costs in suits before it; and though the ground of the action might have been a vexatious bill, the justice could not have any cognizances