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17 N.C. 67

Newsom v. Bufferlow

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 15, 1831

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1831-06-15

After the decree made in this cause (ante vol. 1, 379) tor a reconveyance by the defendant to the plaintiffs, of the land conveyed to him by mistake, an order was made that the defendant should repay the plaintiffs the costs of the ejectment, and a reference as to those costs was directed. cited Keaton v. Cobb (unte vol. 1, 439).

Decided 1831-06-15

Ruífíj, Judge,

¶1after stating the order of reference, proceeded as follows : The clerk, in his report, docs not distinguish between the plaintiff’s own costs, when defendant in ejectment, and those which they paid the plaintiff at law, as his costs, The last only can be decreed to he repaid by the defendant to the plaintiffs. Their own costs the defendants at law threw away, by defending in that court upon an equitable title, and cannot recover back (Keaton v. Cobb). The clerk must again enquire upon that point, and in his report distinguish the taxed costs at law of the plaintiffs, or either of them, from those of the present defendant.

¶2Per Curiam — Order renew eh.

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