Wisler v. Beaumont

Per Curiam. —It was determined in Flick v. Boucher, 17 Serg. Rawle 373, that in the absence of a specific provision in the arbitration act, the costs of an appeal from the judgment of a justice, are to be determined by the 100 dollar act. , That case, like this, was arbitrated in the common pleas, the difference in other respects being that the appeal from the award was taken by the defendant; and the case was held not to be provided for, because a successful defendant appellant, having given security to pay costs but on condition that the plaintiff obtain judgment for a sum equal to or greater than the report of the arbitrators, there is no provision for costs where the plaintiff does not, as was the case there, obtain such a judgment. This is in accordance with the principle of Landes v. Shaeffer, 4 Serg. & Rawle 196, that so far as the arbitration act is concerned, an appellant abates the amount of the award at his own cost;' which is equally applicable to the case before us, where a plaintiff appellant has recovered in the words of his recognizance, “ a sum greater, or a judgment more favourable than the report of the arbitrators.” The case then not being within the provisions of the arbitration act, how does it stand on the 100 dollar act, by which, according to Flick v. Boucher, the question is to be disposed of1? In Franklin v. Wray, 1 Watts 129, we have the very case. There, as here, the plaintiff had recovered on the defendant’s appeal less than the judgment of the justice, and the defendant having given new evidence, was adjudged to pay the costs incurred before the justice, but each was left to pay his own costs incurred subsequently. That case is exactly in point, and decisive of the present. Judgment affirmed.