Wyckoff v. Luse
Wyckoff v. Luse
Opinion of the Court
This writ brings here for review a judgment of the Warren Pleas, entered after a trial de novo, on an appeal from the Court for the Trial of Small Causes. The judgment was given for a balance of the bill of the plaintiff below for. the board of men, while engaged in cutting off a piece of timber, near her house, against the prosecutor, his brother (Cornelius Wyekoff) and Robert Melrose, who were defendants below. The present -prosecutor was the only one who -appealed. One reason urged for a reversal is that a„ motion to nonsuit for insufficiency of the state of demand was overruled. Wé think there is no merit in this objection.
Another ground urged was that there was no evidence to show that the three defendants were jointly interested in the cutting of the timber, or that they permitted themselves to-be so held out to the public. The evidence did tend to show that the timber was purchased by Cornelius Wyekoff; that his brother, the prosecutor, was permitted by him to take general charge of the cutting and removal of the timber, and that the latter and Melrose were jointly interested in the-timber to be cut, and that the net profits were to be turned!
The judgment of the Pleas having reduced the amount recovered in the court below, there should have been no judgment for costs in that court. The costs before the justice appear to be excessive, but since no effort was made to correct the taxed bill in the court below, we cannot grant the relief here.
The judgment below is affirmed, except as to the costs of the appeal.
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