White v. Anthony
White v. Anthony
Opinion of the Court
The appeal in this case, having been taken from an order of the Supreme Court, affecting a question of practice merely, was dismissed with costs at a previous term of. this court, after the question involved had been submitted for decision on the merits, upon the ground that the order was not appealable. The remittitur has been sent down to the Supreme Court, and filed in the proper office. In that, it is stated to have been adjudged by this court that the appeal be “ dismissed with costs.”
A motion is now made that the remittitur be corrected, and that the amount of costs to be paid in this court be fixed therein, and that the same be chargeable only upon the fund represented by the plaintiff, “ on the ground that the remittitur by mistake does, not define the amount of costs to be paid, and omits to charge the same only upon the fund represented by the plaintiff.”
It is conceded by the appellant that this court intended to allow the respondent his costs on the dismissal of the appeal; but it is insisted that the costs on a motion only, and not the general costs on an appeal, can be allowed, and that the amount of those costs should have been fixed and stated in the remittitur."
This view of the question is erroneous.
Appeals may be taken to this court from certain orders made by the Supreme Court, as well as from their judgments; and no distinction is made by the Code between the two classes of appeals in the allowance of costs. The provision regulating them is general. It allows. “ to either party, on appeal to the Court of Appeals, before argument, $25, and for argument $50.” (§ 307, sub; 6.)
The other branch of the application, which seeks that the costs be chargeable only upon the fund represented by the plaintiff, cannot be entertained. Assuming that the effect of the judgment, as contained in the remittitur, is to charge the costs on the appellant personally (but as to which we express no opinion), there is no allegation that the judgment is not in fact conformable to the decision actually made. That decision cannot be changed on this application.
The motion must, therefore, be denied.
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