Bradley v. West Chester Street Railway

Citations

• 160 Pa. 72
• 28 A. 500
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 765

Syllabus

<p>Execution — Debtor's Exemption — Costs—Master's fee — Act of 1849. The plaintiff in au equity suit to restrain a trespass, whose bill is dismissed with costs, may claim the benefit of the exemption where execution is issued against him to recover the amount of the master’s fee.</p> <p>Equity — Costs—Master's fee — Debt on contract.</p> <p>The compensation of a master in equity, as respects the party who has it to pay, is costs, and not a fee.</p> <p>The plaintiff in an equity suit, by invoking the services of a master, impliedly agrees to pay him therefor, and no other element than that of debt on contract enters into the decree against plaintiff for costs.</p>