Costs allowed to plaintiff
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 217 Wis. 2d 493 - Gorton v. Hostak, Henzl & Bichler, S.C. (1998)
Most recently applied in 361 Wis. 2d 496 - First Weber Group, Inc. v. Synergy Real Estate Group, LLC (March 2015)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, costs shall be allowed of course to the plaintiff upon a recovery.
(3) In an action for assault and battery, false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious prosecution, invasion of privacy or seduction, a plaintiff who recovers less than $50 damages shall recover no more costs than damages.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.