Crooks v. Georgetown Transfer Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court taxing costs in favor of the Georgetown Transfer Company, a corporation, in the second trial of an action the merits of which have been before this court on three different occasions, and are reported in 119 Wash. 154, 205 Pac. 419; 125 Wash. 563, 216 Pac. 869; and 130 Wash. 88, 226 Pac. 262.

At the outset we are met by a motion of respondent to dismiss the appeal. The motion must be granted.

We have held in a long line of decisions that this court will not take jurisdiction of a cause simply to determine who shall pay costs in the controversy.…