Case ID: ny-st-rep_32/html/0418-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Truax,J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles Lippe, Resp’t, v. The Metropolitan Elevated R. Co. et al., App’lts.
    
      (New York Superior Court, General Term
    
    
      Filed June 27, 1890.)
    
    Judgment — Amendment of findings.
    Where an amendment is in the line of the correction of a mistake or of an omission obviously due to the trial judge’s oversight, the power to make it is a general and incidental one, and the question is not one of terms or sessions of the court.
    Appeal from order amending, after entry of judgment, certain findings of fact that had been made by the judge who made the order.
    The amendment in each instance consists simply in the insertion in the said findings respectively of the words “ except as hereinafter found.” The findings relate to the opening of Second avenue and Sixty-fifth street under the act of 1813.
    
      Sacked & Bennett, for resp't; Davies & Sapallo, for app’lts.
   Truax,J.

The order appealed from is affirmed with costs,on the opinion of the court of appeals in Bohlen v. The Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. et al., 31 N. Y. State Rep., 888.