Case ID: ad_128/html/0886-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gaynor, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lawrence W. Coates and William W. Whyard, Plaintiffs, v. The Village of Nyack, Defendant.
    
      Practice — clerical error in amount of judgment — correction.
    
    Motion by the plaintiff to correct our order of reversal, and also a clerical error in the original judgment. (See 127 App. Div. 153.)
   Gaynor, J.:

The referee found six separate items in favor of the plaintiff, viz., one on each of the six causes of action, as follows: $4,105.97, $1,327.59, $1,208.49, $5,374.15, $1,319.37 and $1,946.30; but in adding them up erroneously made the total $14,535.90, instead of $15,281.87, a difference against the plaintiffs of. $745.97. From this erroneous total he deducted the amount which the defendant had paid thereon, $8,907.98, and gave judgment for the balance, $5,627.92, with interest, thus, by a clerical error giving the plaintiff $745.97 too little. The error was not perceived by the plaintiffs until after we had decided the appeal which the defendant took to this court. We deducted from the recovery two items, viz., $60 and $1,946.30, and also all of the interest, which would reduce the recovery to $3,621.62 of principal. But our formal order as entered is that the judgment be reversed unless the plaintiffs. consent to reduce the recovery of principal to $1,247. This again- was a clerical error; it should be $3,621.'62. But as we,are requiring the plaintiffs to stipulate a reduction to save a reversal, we will also allow for the clerical error by the referee of $745.97 against the plaintiffs, which made the original judgment that much too small, and require a reduction to $4,367.59, instead of to $3,621.62. If the plaintiffs be so advised, they may also out of. abundance óf caution apply to the court at Special Term to have the original judgment corrected by the addition of the said $745.97:. The motion is- granted as indicated in the-foregoing. Woodward, Hooker, Bich and Miller, JJ., concurred. Motion granted, without costs. Order to be settled before Mr. Justice Gaynor.