Case Name: Reed, in error, versus Tay
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1850
Citations: 32 Me. 173
Docket Number: 
Parties: Reed, in error, versus Tay.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 173–173

Head Matter:
Reed, in error, versus Tay.
In a justice’s court, a denial to allow costs to the exact amount claimed* when a smaller amount is allowed, is not error.
Tay brought an action against Reed in a justice’s court. Judgment was rendered on nonsuit for the defendant, Reed, who taxed his costs at $14,11. The justice rendered judgment for costs, $4,87. To correct that judgment, and to recover his whole bill of costs, Reed brings this writ of error.
J. Hodsdon, for plaintiff in error,
cites 5 Mass. 389; 7 Mass. 453 ; 12 Mass. 379.
Peters, for defendant.

Opinion:
Wells, J.,
orally,— No error of fact has been assigned. No fact, extra the record, has been proved. We must therefore regard the charge as an error of law. A denial to allow costs to the exact amount claimed, when some amount is allowed, is not error in law.
Judgment of the justice affirmed.