42 A. 509 | R.I. | 1899
Though the general rule in regard to costs, on a bill to redeem, is that the complainant, instead of recovering costs, pays them to the respondent, even if successful in the suit, yet when the respondent sets up an unwarranted defence or one which wholly fails, and thereby makes expense and delay in prosecuting the redemption, the respondent may not only be deprived of his own costs but may, in the discretion of the court, be required to pay the complainant's costs. 2 Jones Mort. 4 ed. § 1111; Barton
v. May, 3 Sandf. Ch. 450; Still v. Buzzell,