Hodgkins v. Mead

Defendants were husband and wife. Plaintiff brought this .action to recover certain commissions, as a real-estate broker, for selling certain property belonging to Mrs. Mead, in which transaction the defendant George W. Mead acted as the agent of his wife. Both defendants answered .separately. On the trial the complaint was dismissed as to the defendant George W. Mead, and judgment was entered in his favor, granting him costs “conditionally, viz., to be offset against the judgment herein against Sarah F. Mead, and that no execution be issued for said costs of said George W. Mead.” The said…