Youle v. Brotherton

Court: New York Supreme Court
Date filed: 1813-08-15
Citations: 10 Johns. 363
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2 Citing Cases
Lead Opinion
Per Curiam.

The former nonsuit was no bar to a new action for the same cause; nor had the justice any right to dismiss the action because the costs of the former suit were unpaid. The higher courts will sometimes stay proceedings in a suit, until the costs of a former suit for the same matter are paid; but this is done on a rule to show cause, and in the exercise df a large and liberal discretion. But no such power dr discretidh can be assumed by a justice’s court.

Judgment reversed.