Case Name: Shaw and wife vs. McMaren
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1842-04
Citations: 2 Hill & Den. 417
Docket Number: 
Parties: Shaw and wife vs. McMaren.
Judges: 
Reporter: Hill's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 417–417

Head Matter:
Shaw and wife vs. McMaren.
Where a defendant in ejectment moves for a new trial under the statute, the court . cannot require, as a condition, that he shall pay the costs of a suggestion for mesne profits; nor can they impose any terms beyond payment of costs of the principal suit.
In ejectment, after judgment for the plaintiffs, a motion was made in behalf of the defendant for a new trial under the statute, (2 72. S. 235,2d ed. § 37,) the costs of the ejectment having been paid.
The granting of the motion was opposed, except on the terms that the defendant should also pay the costs of a suggestion for mesne profits which had been some time pending and was at issue, and had been noticed for trial. (Vid. id. 236.) But

Opinion:
Cowen, J.
thought that, on the words of the statute, no terms beyond paying the costs of the principal suit could be required.
Motion granted.