Case ID: ny-st-rep_24/html/0538-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rollett, Oh. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James B. Corbett, Resp’t, v. The Twenty-Third Street-Railway Company, App’lt.
    
    
      (Court of Appeals, Second Division,
    
    
      Filed June 25, 1889.)
    
    1. Abatement and revival — Action for personal injuries — When-abated—Code Civil Pro., § 764.
    The rule of the common law, that an action for the recovery of damages for a personal injury, abates on the death of the plaintiff, is not changed by Code Civil Procedure, § 764, unless a verdict, report or decision has been rendered upon the issues.
    2. Same—Code Civil Pro., § 764.
    The word “ decision,” as used in section 764, refers to a decision made by a court upon a trial of issues without a jury.
    8. Same—Appeal—Code Civil Pro., § 191, subd. 1.
    It was not intended by the legislature that the stipulation provided for in the Code Civil Procedure, § 191, subd. 1, should relate to, or affect the survivability of causes of action, or abatement of actions.
    Appeal from an order of the supreme court, general term, first department, reversing a judgment entered on a non-suit at trial term.
    
      Sermon S. Shook, for motion; Leslie W. Russell, opposed.
    
      
       See 4 N Y. State Rep., 535.
    
   Rollett, Oh. J.

This action is for a recovery of damages for a personal injury (Code Civ. Pro., § 3343, subd. 9), and the rule of the common law that such an action abates on the death of the plaintiff is not changed by section 764 of the Code of Civil Procedure, unless a verdict, report or decision has been rendered upon the issues. ■ Neither a verdict nor a report has been rendered in this action. The word “ decision,” as used in this section, refers to a decision made by a court upon a trial of issues without a jury. Code Civil Pro., § 3343, subd. 5. This action was not tried by the court without a jury and the non-suit is not a decision, within the meaning of section 764. The order of the general term, reversing the judgment entered on the non-suit, was not made upon the hearing or trial of the issues and is not a decision within the meaning of the section last cited.

The stipulation given by the defendant upon appealing to this court does not prevent the abatement of the action. The lawmaking power did not intend that the stipulation provided for in subdivision 1 of section 191 should relate to, or affect the survivability of causes of action, or the abatement of actions, nor did either of the parties to this action intend that the stipulation should affect, or have any relation to the abatement of the action, or to the survivability of the cause of action. The action has. abated and the court is without power to revive it.

The motion to revive should be denied, with costs.

All concur.