Douglass v. Macdurmid

Section 8251 of the Code provides that costs awarded to a party to an action must be. * * * To the plaintiff: For all proceedings before notice of trial, in an action specified in section 420 of the Code, fifteen dollars. Section 420 provides that “ judgment may be taken without application to the court where the complaint sets forth one or more causes of action, each consisting of the breach of an express contract to pay, absolutely or upon a contingency, a u r >r sums of money fixed by the terms of the contract, or *290capable of being ascertained therefrom by computation only.” The present…