Court Opinion

ID: 5468880
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 20:16:27.043983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:13.491377
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Marvin, Justice.
At the April Erie circuit the complaint was dismissed, the plaintiff failing to move the trial of the issues joined. The plaintiff obtained an order staying proceedings, and on the 6th May made a motion to be relieved from the default taken at the circuit. The motion was denied with costs. May 11, the costs were adjusted by the clerk upon proper notice, and the items of costs were allowed according to the act of April 17, 1857, amending certain sections of the Code relating to costs.
I think the clerk erred. The action had been disposed of prior to the taking effect of the act of April 17,1857; that act did not go into effect until the 17th April. The right to costs and the amount of the costs were regulated by the provisions of the Code, as they were prior to the 17th April, when the law amending the Code became operative. I have examined the cases cited by the defendant’s counsel. (3 Den. 173; 4 Wend. 210; 1 Duer, 617.) They are not applicable to the question as here raised. The clerk will re-adjust the costs.