Carpenter v. Lawson

*434OPINION OP THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, C.J.

The plaintiff having obtained judg’inent for $15 and costs in his action in the district court of Honolulu for the use and hire of four trestle horses, ten scaffolding planks, one Avater barrel, one mortar board and four mortar galvanized buckets for fifteen days at $1 a day, the defendant appealed to the circuit court, and the parties waiving jury the judge found for the plaintiff in the sum of $7.50. The judgment appealed from having thus been reduced more than one-fifth the costs ($16.75) Avere aAvarded under Sec. 1893 R. L. to the defendant, and under…