Winslow v. Collins
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from so much of an interlocutory order of the vice chancellor of the 8th circuit as directed the complainant to pay the costs of the application.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The object of this appeal is to review the decision of the vice chancellor, allowing costs to the defendant, upon setting aside a proceeding of the complainant for an irregularity. The costs in this court, and particularly on special motions, are so entirely in the discretion of the court, that it must be a plain and palpable case of injustice which would authorize an appellate court to interfere, even if an appeal as to costs were expressly allowed by law. But I apprehend the appellant’s solicitor has entirely mistaken the practice of the court in supposing that an appeal…
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