Case Name: MARSH against HENDRICKS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-11
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 612
Docket Number: 
Parties: MARSH against HENDRICKS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 196–197

Head Matter:
MARSH against HENDRICKS.
ON CERTIORARI.
Judgment for costs of both parties, is error.
The justice in rendering, judgment, had given judgment both for the plaintiff's and defendant's costs.

Opinion:
By the Court. — This
judgment must be reversed. The justice erred in giving judgment for any more costs than that of the prevailing party. The prevailing party had no right to recover the costs laid out and expended by his adversary. The judgment is not a judgment rendered for the justice, the officers of the court, or the witnesses, but for the party. The prevailing [*] party recovers a judgment for the costs which he himself has legally expended, in and about this suit; what his adversary hath expended he hath his right to.
•Judgment reversed.