Kanahele v. Wakefield

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, J.

This is assumpsit for $64.90 costs adjudged in certain proceedings in the Circuit Court to be paid to the plaintiff herein "by a party whose attorneys were the present defendants. The ¡action is based on subdivision C of Buie 24 of the Circuit Courts, *259which reads: “Attorneys shall be liable for costs of court incurred by their respective clients.” The question raised by this appeal on points of law from the District Court is whether a party in whose favor a judgment for costs has been entered in the Circuit Court may under this Kule sue in assumpsit the…