Expenses of litigation are not ordinarily recoverable as damages.27 The successful litigant in a suit recovers the money which he has paid out for court costs and in a few states a small amount is allowed for attorney's fees.

27 Jacobson vs. Poindexter, 42 Aro,

97; Boardman vs. Marshall-town Grocery Co., 105 Iowa, 445,75 N. W., 343.