| "{\"id\": \"389466\", \"name\": \"Christopher Augat vs. Johanna Tetmeyer\", \"name_abbreviation\": \"Augat v. Tetmeyer\", \"decision_date\": \"1919-12-22\", \"docket_number\": \"\", \"first_page\": \"256\", \"last_page\": \"257\", \"citations\": \"94 Conn. 256\", \"volume\": \"94\", \"reporter\": \"Connecticut Reports\", \"court\": \"Connecticut Supreme Court\", \"jurisdiction\": \"Connecticut\", \"last_updated\": \"2021-08-10T23:49:47.184391+00:00\", \"provenance\": \"CAP\", \"judges\": \"\", \"parties\": \"Christopher Augat vs. Johanna Tetmeyer.\", \"head_matter\": \"Christopher Augat vs. Johanna Tetmeyer.\\nThird Judicial District, Bridgeport,\\nOctober Term, 1919.\\nWheeler, Beach, Gager, Case and Curtis, Js.\\nThe maxim de minimis non curat lex is applicable to the alleged erroneous allowance of an item of interest of $4 or thereabouts in a judgment for $152, and an appeal to'this court solely upon such ground is not justified.\\nArgued November 5th\\ndecided December 22d, 1919.\\nAction by the payee against the maker of a promissory note for $150, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Booth, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for the amount of the note with interest, less the sum of $11.50 allowed the defendant upon her counterclaim, from which she appealed.\\nNo error.\\nAlbert McC. Mathewson, for the appellant (defendant).\\nJoseph G. Shapiro and Charles H. Shapiro, for the appellee (plaintiff).\", \"word_count\": \"229\", \"char_count\": \"1395\", \"text\": \"Per Curiam.\\nCertain items of the defendant's counterclaim were allowed in reduction of the amount claimed by the plaintiff; others were disallowed. The finding conclusively settled every matter in dispute, save an item of interest amounting to something over $4, which it is claimed the court erroneously allowed. This did not justify an appeal, and our disposition of the case is manifestly controlled by Neville v. Frary, 88 Conn. 50, 89 Atl. 882, and the earlier cases there referred to.\\nThere is no error.\"}" |