Upson v. Fuller
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo Circuit Cou/rt. This action was commenced before a justice of the peace and removed by writ of error to the Circuit Court, where the judgment rendered against the plaintiff for a part of the costs, he having recovered in the action, was reversed. Defendant appeals to this court from the judgment of the Circuit Court. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
The action was brought to recover the value of a gun which defendant had received from one O’Neil for repairs. The charge for repairing, $16, was tendered by plaintiff. He claimed to recover $80, the value of the gun. *410Defendant denied the allegations of the petition, and averred that the gun had been sold by him for his charges incurred in its repair. The justice of the peace upon a trial rendered judgment against defendant for the sum of $31, the amount found by him to be the value of the gun. Thereupon he taxed the costs to each party making them, plaintiff being thus required to pay $41…
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