Case ID: misc_29/html/0326-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fbeedman, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Malissa F. Mead, Appellant, v. Simon S. Friedberg, Respondent.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    October, 1899.)
    Municipal Court of the city of New York — Jurisdiction — Dismissal of complaint for insufficiency of proof.
    Where, in an action in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, the plaintiff fails to show that the defendant resides within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, a dismissal of the complaint will be affirmed as one for insufficiency of proof; and the fact that the trial judge assigned a different ground for the dismissal is immaterial, as the propriety of his decision will not be considered on appeal.
    Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court, third district, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor of the defendant, dismissing the complaint.
    Eoger S. Baldwin, for appellant.
    Smith & Cochrane, for respondent.
   Fbeedman, P. J.

At the close of the plaintiff’s case the defendant moved for a dismissal of the complaint upon various grounds, and, among others, upon the ground that it did not appear that the court had jurisdiction of'the action. The trial judge dismissed the complaint upon the ground that the plaintiff was not the real party in interest. It is not necessary to determine whether the proper reason was assigned for granting the motion. As there was no proof in the case that the defendant is a resident within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, the dismissal was proper, irrespective of the particular reason assigned, especially as the plaintiff did not ask for leave to supply the defect in the proof.

The judgment must, therefore, be treated as one dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for insufficiency of proof, and, as such, it should be affirmed.

Leventbitt and MacLean, JJ., concur.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.