Case Name: THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS, Appellant, v. PAUL N. SPOFFORD and others, Executors, etc., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1875-03
Citations: 11 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 74
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS, Appellant, v. PAUL N. SPOFFORD and others, Executors, etc., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 11
Pages: 74–74

Head Matter:
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS, Appellant, v. PAUL N. SPOFFORD and others, Executors, etc., Respondents.
Bxt/ra allowance—Laches.
Reargument of an appeal from an order of Special Term, granting an additional allowance.
Although there are questions in a cause making it a difficult and extraordinary one within the meaning of the Code, yet if all these questions are decided in favor of the plaintiff, if the defendant succeeds in the case an additional allowance should not he granted to him for having contested questions upon which the plaintiff has succeeded. When defendants had adjusted their costs on appeal, the General Term disallowed certain costs, and on further appeal the Court of Appeals held. that they had been properly allowed ; no extra allowance having'been asked for or granted, it was held, that the defendants could not abandon the bill of costs thus adjusted and served, and commence de novo for the purpose of seeking an allowance.
Wm. Allen Butler, for the appellant.
William G. Cooke, for the respondents.
Reported before, 3 Hun, 52,57.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Davis, P. J.
Present — Davis, P. J., Brady and Daniels, JJ.
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs.