Whitlock's Case

Decided February 15, 1855

New York Court of Common Pleas · decided 1855-02-15

Order for the examination of a judgment debtor. The affidavit on which the order had been obtained, stated, that a judgment was recovered against the judgment debtor sought to be examined, in'the First District Court of the city of New York, for $33 12; and that another judgment was recovered against him by the same plaintiff, in the Marine Court, for $511 561 It did not state in terms that these judgments were for twenty-five dollars, exclusive of costs.

Decided 1855-02-15

Daly, J.

¶1(Orally).—In the Marine Court, by the act of 1852, the plaintiff can recover no costs, unless he recover fifty dollars. The amount of the judgment as stated in the affidavit, is five hundred and eleven dollars. It must be for twenty-five dollars, exclusive of costs, because the plaintiff could have recovered no costs unless he recovered at least fifty dollars. The allegation that that judgment is for twenty-five dollars, exclusive of costs, was therefore unnecessary in the affidavit.

¶2In the District Court, the costs are limited to five dollars. Here the amount of the judgment is stated to be thirty-three dollars and upwards, so that it must have been for twenty-five dollars, exclusive of costs.

¶3The examination proceeded.