Furr's Supermarkets, Inc. v. Bethune

Today, the Court holds that potential emotional harm a trial court may cause a party in assessing costs can never be, as a matter of law, good cause for ordering each party to pay their own costs under Rule 141. In doing so, the Court ignores the limited parameters of its review under an abuse-of-discretion standard. Because there is some evidence in the record to support the trial court’s good-cause statement, the Court has improperly substituted its judgment for the trial court’s judgment. I dissent.

I. APPLICABLE LAW

Typically, unless otherwise provided, the successful party in a suit shall…