Skinner v. Watson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass, brought originally before a justice of the peace, who rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover twenty dollars damages, and appealed by the defendant to the Superior Court in Hartford County, in which the plaintiff recovered only one dollar damages.
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Trespass, brought originally before a justice of the peace, who rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover twenty dollars damages, and appealed by the defendant to the Superior Court in Hartford County, in which the plaintiff recovered only one dollar damages. After the case was appealed and before it was tried in the Superior Court, the General Assembly, in the year 1866, passed the following act: “In all actions of trespass and trespass on the case tried in the Superior Court, if the damages found by the verdict of the jury or otherwise shall not exceed thirty-five dollars, the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The statute of 1866 was doubtless intended to apply, and does apply, to all actions of trespass and trespass on the case tried in the Superior Court. All such actions not within the proviso are subject to the operation of the body of the act. As the plaintiff recovered one dollar damages, he is entitled to costs, either a sum equal to the damages under the body of the act, or full costs under the proviso. The court refused to tax costs. The error assigned is, that the “ court erred in refusing to render judgment for the plaintiff to recover his full costs of suit.” If the plaintiff is…
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