Dinger v. Miller

Miller sued in the circuit court for slander and recovered $25. For this sum he took judgment and also for "$155.25 costs. This allowance for costs *333was made against the objection of plaintiff in error that no more costs than damages were recoverable. The objection was well based. The case was governed by those provisions which give costs to the plaintiff to an amount not exceeding the damages found. Comp. L., §§ 7387, 7388; Inkster v. Carver, 16 Mich., 484; Meyer v. Wood, 38 Mich., 297; People on rel. of Stortz v. Circuit Judge, id., 243; Dikeman v. Harrison, id., 617. We held in Inkster v.…