In any personal action not on contract, which might be brought and prosecuted to judgment in a justice's court, if a verdict be found for the plaintiff, on an issue or otherwise, for less damages than $50, he shall not recover, in respect to such verdict, any costs, unless the court enter of record that the object of the action was to try a right besides the mere right to recover damages for the trespass or grievance in respect of which the action was brought, or that the said trespass or grievance was wilful or malicious.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 59. Fees, Allowances and Costs; Newspapers; Legal Advertisements
§59-2-1. Suits by Persons Financially Unable to Pay
§59-2-4. Costs on Motions and Interlocutory Proceedings
§59-2-5. Payment of Costs on Granting of New Trial or Continuance
§59-2-6. Where Recovery of Damages Less Than Fifty Dollars in Action Ex Delicto
§59-2-7. Judgment Where Recovery Is Fifty Dollars or Less in Action Ex Contractu
§59-2-8. Costs on Final Judgment; Judgment For, or Discontinuance as To, Some of Defendants
§59-2-9. Costs When Original Papers or Record Replaced
§59-2-10. Suit by One Person for Benefit of Another
§59-2-12. Costs When Case Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction
§59-2-14. Taxation of Statute Fees
§59-2-15. General Taxation of Costs
§59-2-17. Fees of Prosecuting Attorney