Case Name: WALDSTREICHER v. SOLOMON et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-06-29
Citations: 111 N.Y.S. 500
Docket Number: 
Parties: WALDSTREICHER v. SOLOMON et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 111
Pages: 500–502

Head Matter:
WALDSTREICHER v. SOLOMON et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
June 29, 1908.)
Costs—Right—Amount op Recovery—Actions Triable in Inferior Court— City Court op New York.
Code Civ. Proc. § 3228, subd. 5, provides that in all actions in the Supreme Court, triable in the county of New York or the county of Kings, which could have been brought, except for the amount claimed, in the City Court of the city of New York or the County Court of Kings county, and in which defendant is personally served with process within the counties of New York or Kings, plaintiff shall recover no costs, unless he shall recover $500 or more. Held, that the statute did not require a plaintiff resident in Kings county to bring his action in the City Court of New York, in New York county, where defendants resided, when he could, in order to recover costs if he should recover less than $500, as each county is considered separately in the application of the statute.
Hooker,' J., dissenting.
Appeal from Special Term, Kings County.
Action by Louis Waldstreicher against Louis A. Solomon and others. From an order directing taxation of costs against defendants, they appeal.
Order affirmed.
Argued before JENKS, HOOKER, GAYNOR, RICH, and MILLER, JJ.
Edward Kaufmann, for appellants.
I. Wasservogel, for respondent.

Opinion:
GAYNOR, J.
Section 3228, subd. 5, of the Code of .Civil Procedure does not mean that a plaintiff in Kings county is called upon to -bring his action in the City Court of New York, which is in New York county, when he 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.
Order affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements. All concur, except HOOKER, J., who dissents.