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2 Ky. Op. 243

Taylor v. Farley

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided June 11, 1868

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1868-06-11

<p>Costs — Plaintiff Entitled to His Costs When Petition Corrects Errors.</p> <p>Where in a petition by the plaintiff he succeeds in correcting mistakes charged therein, he is entitled to recover his costs, though the petition may not be sustained and relief granted as prayed for.</p>

Decided 1868-06-11

¶1Opinion op the Court by

Judge Robertson :

¶2We are satisfied that when the partnership was dissolved, the parties made a settlement including all accounts between them, except uncollected debts and some personal articles, and that those debts and articles have been satisfactorily adjusted pendente lite.

¶3And we are unable to see that there was any essential mistake in the settlement which has not been corrected by the decree appealed from. The first judgment for $100 in appellant’s favor for mistake against him, was afterwards properly corrected and reduced to $50; and the appellant, having gotten the $50 ,is not entitled to more than one half of the rent for 1848 adjudged to him as erroneously charged in the books kept by the appellee.

Turner, for appellant. . .BrecJc, for appellee.

¶4Wherefore^ perceiving no essential error in the judgment on the partnership accounts we affirm it.

¶5But, as the appellant succeeded in correcting mistakes charged in his petition, it ceems to us he was entitled to a judgment for his costs, and that in adjudging that he should pay his own costs the Circuit Oourt erred; and that judgment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded for correction of it. But as each party has partially succeeded on the appeal there will be no judgment for costs in this court.

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