Levesque v. Bristol Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ‘‘costs are a creature of statute, and, therefore, a court may not tax a cost unless it is clearly empowered to do so’’
• issue of fact \becomes a conclusion of law ... when the mind of a fair and reasonable [person] could reach only one conclusion\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “costs are a creature of statute, and, therefore, a court may not tax a cost unless it is clearly empowered to do so . . . because statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed” [citation omitted]
• ‘costs are a creature of statute, and, therefore, a court may not tax a cost unless it is clearly empowered to do so . . . because statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly con- strued’ . . .

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