Case ID: nys_21/html/0827-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DWIGHT, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHAMBERLAIN v. DUMVILLE et al.
    (Supreme Court, General Term, Fifth Department.
    January 18, 1893.)
    Reference Made after Refusal—Permission to Renew Motion. . Where an application made for an order granting a compulsory reference is opposed, and denied by one judge, the order granting the reference will be reversed, where it is made by another judge, unless leave to renew the motion was first obtained.
    Appeal from circuit court, Niagara county.
    Action by John D.' Chamberlain against Joseph Dumville and others. From an order granting a compulsory reference, defendants appeal. Reversed.
    Argued before DWIGHT, P. J., and MACOMBER and LEWIS, JJ„
    J. E. Pound, for appellants.
    R. Crowley, for respondent.
   DWIGHT, P. J.

This order should be reversed, if for no other reason, because it was made by one judge at the circuit after it had been denied by another judge at special term, and without leave obtained to renew the motion. This objection might possibly be obviated if the case had been, as stated in the printed points of counsel, one where the judge at the circuit had ordered the reference on his own motion, on discovering, in the course of the trial, sufficient ground therefor. But such was not the case, as is shown by the terms of the order itself. It was an order made on the application of the defendants opposed by the plaintiffs. By the former order the same application of the same parties, and similarly opposed, was denied ata court" held by another justice. It is not seemly, and it is contrary to the practice, for one judge to entertain a motion once already made and denied by another judge, unless leave to renew has been obtained from the same judge, if practicable, by whom the motion was formerly denied. Klumpp v. Gardner, 44 Hun, 515; Worman v. Frankish, (City Ct. N. Y.) 11 N. Y. Supp. 351. Talcott v. Burnstine, 13 N. Y. St. Rep. 552. The order should be reversed, with costs. So ordered. All concur.