Case ID: nys_6/html/0960-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Freedman, J. Sedgwick, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Southwick, Respondent, v. Hamersly, Appellant.
    
      (Superior Court of New Nofk City, General Term.
    
    June 28, 1889.)
    Appeal from special term order denying defendant’s motion to set aside default and inquest taken.
    Argued before Sedgwick, C. J., and Freedman, J.
    
      August P. Wagener, for appellant. Samuel Jones, for respondent.
   Freedman, J.

The affidavits read below in opposition to the motion to open defendant’s default and to set aside the inquest taken against him clearly show that the defendant trifled with the court; that delay is the great object sought for by him; and that the motion was properly denied. The order should be affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.

Sedgwick, C. J.

In my opinion, the order was correct. Ho specific reason was given for a belief that a trial would have a result different from that of the inquest. Hor on the trial did it appear that what the defendant desired to prove could not have been proven by other witnesses. If there was error in the decision of the judge at the trial the defendant was protected by his right to appeal; otherwise the matter was in the discretion of the trial judge first, and then of the judge who made the order appealed from. In neither case was the discretion improperly used. I think the order should be affirmed, with $10 costs.