Chambelis v. Connecticut Co.

Tilly Chambelis vs. the Connecticut Company; Felix Rometsch vs. the Connecticut Company

Chambelis v. Conn. Co., 107 A. 495 (Conn. 1919)

Court: Supreme Court of Connecticut · State Highest Courts
Decided: July 16, 1919
Judges: Prentice, Roraback, Wheeler, Beach, Gager
Citations: 107 A. 49593 Conn. 6581919 Conn. LEXIS 63
Disposition: No error.

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Headnotes

General Statutes, § 2242, provides that the prevailing party in a civil action shall receive $15 for the trial of an issue of law or fact, but if more than one issue of fact shall be tried at one time, only one trial fee shall be allowed. Held that where two distinct causes with different plaintiffs were by mutual agreement tried together to the same jury, with a separate verdict and judgment in each case, the prevailing party in each was entitled to recover a trial fee and also a jury fee.

Summary

Appeals by the defendant from the allowance, in taxing costs, of two trial fees and two jury fees, in two cases claiming damages resulting from the same collision, which were tried together to the same jury, in the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Booth, J. The plaintiff Rometsch sued for damages to his automobile, and the plaintiff Chambelis for personal injuries received in the same accident. The cases were tried to the jury together, so that the evidence as to liability was the same in each case, but the evidence as to damages entirely separate. There was a verdict and judgment for $155 in the Rometsch case and for $236 in the Chambelis case.

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Opinion of the Court — Per Curiam

*659 Per Curiam.

Each plaintiff was entitled to a jury fee and a trial fee. There were two jury trials, and the judgment in each case recites, accordingly, that it was committed to the jury. The agreement that the two cases should be tried together, related merely to the method of submitting the question of liability in each case to the jury. Otherwise the two litigations were independent, and on the issue of damages required separate trials.

The provision of § 2242 of the General Statutes which provides that “the prevailing party in any civil action . . . shall receive ... for the trial of an issue of law or fact, fifteen dollars, but if more than one issue of fact shall be tried at one time, only one trial fee shall be allowed,” does not apply. Here there are two prevailing parties having no privity of action.

There is no error.

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Canners Exchange Subscribers at Warners Inter-Insurance Bureau v. North American Canning Co.194 F.2d 588 (5th Cir. 1952)
Daniels v. Board of Education348 A.2d 671 (Conn. 1974)
Canners Exchange Subscribers at Warners Inter-Insurance Bureau v. North American Canning Co. (Two Cases)194 F.2d 588 (5th Cir. 1952)
Albren, Inc. v. Gordon3 Conn. Super. Ct. 85 (1935)
Friede v. Bernstein4 Conn. Super. Ct. 165 (1936)
Dahl v. Town of Danbury8 Conn. Super. Ct. 323 (1940)

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Daniels v. Board of Education348 A.2d 671 (Conn. 1974)
Canners Exchange Subscribers at Warners Inter-Insurance Bureau v. North American Canning Co. (Two Cases)194 F.2d 588 (5th Cir. 1952)
Canners Exchange Subscribers at Warners Inter-Insurance Bureau v. North American Canning Co.194 F.2d 588 (5th Cir. 1952)
Cohn v. City & Town of Hartford9 Conn. Super. Ct. 425 (1941)
Dahl v. Town of Danbury8 Conn. Super. Ct. 323 (1940)
Friede v. Bernstein4 Conn. Super. Ct. 165 (1936)

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