Case Name: Cloud vs Hughes
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1843-05-03
Citations: 3 B. Mon 375
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cloud vs Hughes.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 375–375

Head Matter:
Cloud vs Hughes.
Error to the Livingston Circuit.
Trespass.
Case 103.
May 3.
Owsley cf- Goodloe for appellant: Harlan Sf Craddock for appellee.
Awards. Costs.
An award in favor of plaintiff, on a reference made by order of Court, which gives damages to the plaintiff, is final, though nothing be said of the costs, they are an incident & should be given to the plain* tiff.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Ewing
delivered the opinion of the Court.
An award was made under an order of Court in this case, it being an action of trespass, assault, and battery, awarding to Hughes, the plaintiff below, $375 in damages. This award was made the judgment of the Court, with costs — a motion to quash the same having been first made and overruled. And the only objection made to the award in this Court is, that it failed to settle who should pay the costs, and was not, therefore, final. It settled and determined the matters of controversy between the parties, and the costs, which are fixed and regulated bylarv, was incidental to, and as necessarily followed the judgment to be rendered on that determination, as they would follow the verdict of a jury, finding the amount of damages in favor of the plaintiff. An award which is specially favored by the law, in modern times, ought not to be set aside on such slight grounds.
Judgment affirmed with costs.