Case ID: nys_7/html/0662-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People v. Perlstein et al.
    
    
      (Common Pleas of New York, City and County, General Term,.
    
    December 2, 1889.)
    Bail—Judgment on Forfeited Recognizance—Vacation.
    A judgment on a forfeited recognizance will be vacated, where accused was confined to his house by illness on the day set for trial, and died soon after.
    Application to vacate judgment against Elias H. Perlstein, as principal, and one Wollowitz, as surety, entered on forfeited recognizance.
    Argued before Larremore, C. J., and Daly and Van Hoesen, JJ.
    
      J. R. Fellows, Dist. Atty., for the People. Samuel J. Crook, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

The prisoner was accused of selling and disposing of goods on'a Sunday, and held to bail in the sum of $100, and required to appear for trial on December 28,1888. On that day he was ill, and confined to the house, and died on January 80, 1889. The judgment subsequently entered on May 16, 1889, on the forfeited recognizance, should be vacated.