Ames v. Meehan

This appeal presents for determination only a question of costs. The action is to recover the value of certain timber wrongfully cut upon and taken from the *409plaintiff’s land, and alleged to have been converted by tbe defendants. It was brought in the circuit court, and the plaintiff recovered a judgment for $38.15 damages, and for full costs taxed at $150.90.

This being an action for a tort, and the damages recovered being less than $50, it is claimed that the defendants were entitled to costs. This is a correct proposition if the action was within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace.…