Court Opinion

ID: 9943854
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-26 15:00:42.487447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:48:34.320510
License: Public Domain

Under Minn. St. 607.01 costs in the supreme court may be allowed, in the discretion of the court, to the prevailing party, upon a judgment *Page 182 
in his favor on the merits, not exceeding $25. The same statute also provides that in all cases the prevailing party shall be allowed his disbursements necessarily paid or incurred.
The court has no discretion but to allow prevailing party its disbursements. Graf v. Montgomery Ward Co. Inc. 234 Minn. 485,49 N.W.2d 797; State ex rel. South St. Paul v. Hetherington, 240 Minn. 298, 61 N.W.2d 737.
Supreme Court Rule XV (222 Minn. xxxvii) provides that unless otherwise ordered the prevailing party shall recover costs in the amount provided by the statute.
A prevailing party has been defined as one who procures a reversal or modification of the order or judgment from which the appeal is taken. Sanborn v. Webster, 2 Minn. 277 (323); Henderson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. 231 Minn. 503, 511,43 N.W.2d 786, 792.
Under the circumstances existing in the case, the appellant, River States Oil Company, is the prevailing party. The taxation of costs by the clerk is therefore affirmed.