Wilson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This case was tried in Trial Term, Part IV. The jury brought in a verdict for both the plaintiff and defendant on separate causes of action in the complaint. Now the defendant prays for an amendment of the judgment in its favor on the second cause of action to include costs against the plaintiff pursuant to section 1483 of the Civil Practice Act.

The defendant is prevented from exercising whatever rights it may have had to costs by virtue of a provision in section 1493 of the act which plainly specifies that no costs are to be awarded against one suing as a poor person if a judgment is…