Case Name: ANONYMOUS
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1830-06
Citations: 7 Me. 161
Docket Number: 
Parties: ANONYMOUS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 161–161

Head Matter:
ANONYMOUS.
The Stat. 1829, ch. 444, sec. 1, inflicting, in certain cases, an addition of twenty fiva per cent, to the costs recovered against a defendant appellant, does not apply to cases brought up by demurrer to the plea, with the usual reservations of leave to waive the pleadings in this court.
In this case tbe question arose whether the twenty five per cent. to be added to the plaintiff’s costs, by Stat. 1829, ch. 444, sec. 1, in certain cases brought up by the defendant by appeal, applied to cases brought up by appeal from judgments rendered upon demurrer.

Opinion:
And the Court
held that in cases of demurrer to the declaration, where the defendant appealed, and the damages recovered in the court below were not reduced, the twenty five per cent, was to be added to the plaintiff's costs since the appeal; for the demurrer was the act of the defendant, which the plaintiff could not control. But where the defendant pleaded, with the usual reservation of liberty to waive the plea, and plead anew in this court; to which the plaintiff, consenting to the reservation, demurred, for the purpose of bringing up the cause by mutual agreement, without the expense of a trial in the court below, the plaintiff must be considered as waiving his right to the penalty imposed by the statute in restraint of groundless and dilatorv appeals,