Warner v. Smith
Warner v. Smith
Opinion of the Court
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
A nonsuit was suffered ; and thereupon the circuit court rendered judgment against the,plaintiff, in favor of the defendants, for seven dollars and fifty cents, instead of one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, and ’the costs of suit. The only question is, whether the judgment for the seven dollars and fifty cents be correct or not.
The twenty second section of the act of 1795, entitled an act to establish district courts, provides, that the plaintiff, if he be nonsuited, shall pay the defendant, forty five shillings, equal to seven dollars and fifty cepts.
It is suggested that the judgment is right, because the court may have made an additional allowance to the. defendants, in consequence of their residence being more than twenty live miles from the court house. The service of the process on the defendants in Fayette, where the judgment was rendered, negatives the truth of the position assumed.
Judgment reversed, with costs, and cause remanded with directions to enter judgment in conformity with this opinion.
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