Case ID: misc_49/html/0430-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "O’Dwyer, Ch. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Paul Armstrong, Plaintiff, v. Henry Heide, Defendant.
    (City Court of New York, Special Term and Chambers,
    February, 1906.)
    Appeal — Mode of taking — Notice of appeal — Compelling acceptance of notice: Review — Scope of review—Matters reviewable on appeal from final judgment.
    Where the plaintiff serves a notice of appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint and includes therein an appeal from orders, not necessarily affecting the final judgment and the time to appeal from which has expired, and the defendant returns the notice on the ground that the time has expired, a motion to compel its acceptance will be denied.
    Motion by the plaintiff to compel defendant’s attorneys to accept notice of appeal from final judgment dismissing the complaint for insufficiency. The plaintiff in his said notice of appeal also appealed from that part of an order theretofore entered imposing payment of all costs to date as a condition to granting a motion made- by him for leave to amend his complaint and from each and every part of an order, subsequently entered, denying his said motion for leave to amend his complaint for failure to comply with said condition. The time to take separate appeals from said orders had expired and the notice of appeal was returned for that reason. Plaintiff claimed a right to appeal from said orders under section 1316 of the Code.
    J. P. Solomon (John G. Ritter, of counsel), for plaintiff, for motion.
    Amend & Amend (Alfred J. Amend and John E. Donnelly, of counsel), for defendant, opposed.
   O’Dwyer, Ch. J.

If the plaintiff’s complaint failed tc state a cause of action, it was beyond the power of the court, upon the trial, against the objection of the defendant, to supply the omission. That relief could be had at Special Term, upon such terms as the court might deem proper to impose. The orders of the Special Term, referred to in the notice of appeal, do not necessarily affect the final judgment; and the time to appeal therefrom separately having expired, it was improper to include an appeal therefrom in the notice of appeal from the final judgment. The defendant then had to return the notice or waive his objection thereto. I do not think the plaintiff was stayed from serving notice of appeal by reason of the nonpayment of the costs. The defendant had, by moving the cause for trial, waived his right to insist that the plaintiff was stayed from reviewing his affirmative action by reason of the nonpayment of costs theretofore imposed. The defendant’s practice in returning the notice of appeal, having support upon some of the grounds recited, this motion to compel an acceptance thereof is denied, with ten dollars costs.

Motion denied, with ten dollars costs.