Manning v. Shoop
Citations
- 170 Pa. 236
- 32 A. 412
- 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1391
Syllabus
<p>Equity — Equity practice — Gosts.</p> <p>In equity the question of costs is largely within the discretion of the court, and the Supreme Court will not reverse a decree of the lower court as to costs, except in a case where the discretion of the lower court has not been wisely and justly exercised.</p> <p>In a contest between two contending factions in a church congregation, where the church corporation intervenes as a party defendant and joins in the answer to the bill of complaint, and a decree is entered in favor of the plaintiffs, the court may in its discretion impose the costs upon the church corporation.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- noting that employer’s agreement to resolve litigation followed by resolution not being made until ten months after the injury and five months after hearing process initiation was not reasonable
- the employer engaged in unreasonable contest where it issued a notice of compensation payable ten months after the injury, seven months after receipt of a medical report, and four months after an IME confirmed the work injury
- “An award of 20% of the compensation is not reasonable per se for purposes of Section 440 simply because that is the fee agreement between a claimant and his attorney for ordinary counsel fees for handling the case. Eugenie.”
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Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrbtt, Williams
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