Court Opinion

ID: 4926628
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-24 00:57:43.018204+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:21.981169
License: Public Domain

The opinion of the Court, Emery J. not sitting on account of interest, was afterwards delivered by
Weston C. J.
This case is not distinguishable from Gilmore v. Carr, 2 Mass. R. 171. That case is not overruled by *51Porter v. Ingraham, 10 Mass. R. 88. Indeed the Court in the latter decision, state very expressly, that there are esseutkl grounds of difference between them ; and that they do not overrule the former case. Costs depend here upon our own statutes ; and cannot be affected by the law or practice of other States. The plaintiff’s motion for costs is overruled ; but as the defendant has no merits, we do not take off the default, for the purpose of awarding costs in his favor.