Rockland Water Co. v. Pillsbury
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Debt on judgment. Plea, nul tiel record. Plaintiff put in a copy of the record of a judgment between the parties.
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On exceptions. Debt on judgment. Plea, nul tiel record. Plaintiff put in a copy of the record of a judgment between the parties. Defendant suggested an alteration of the record, and proved, subject to plaintiff’s objection, that the sums, indicating the amounts of debt and costs recovered, were inserted by the present clerk of courts in blanks left with the rest of the record which was filled out by the gentleman who filled that office in 1862. The other facts, bearing on the issue, are stated in the opinion of the court. 1. Plaintiffs produce such a record as they declare upon, and should…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
At the May term, 1862, of this court, in a suit pending between these parties in this county, the plaintiff obtained a verdict of the jury in their favor for $57.22. The cost was then taxed by the clerk from whose taxation both parties appealed, but there was no adjudication upon the question of costs by any justice during his term of office. During all this time the bill of costs, as taxed, remained on file with a minute thereon, that an appeal had been taken by both parties. At the March term, 1868, his successor, Mr. Rose, presented the matter of these costs to Judge Danporth who handed…
2Cited by1 opinion
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