Case ID: johns_3/html/0244-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fink against Bryden.
    NEW-YORK,
    May, 1808.
    
      ^May'fth Where a motion is made to set aside an in-default^the af fidavit must inquest^was taken by default in the cause. Where an atprehends™Uve" rule of pracwiU p^rmit"^ ’him to give new notice of a motion for a subsequent day m term, on new affidavits.
    JOHNSON, for die defendant
    moved to set aside the inquest taken by default in this cause, on-the usual affidavit °f merits. He produced a certificate of the clerk of the sittings, that the inquest had been taken by default, out -. . , , , , ' its order on the calendar of causes.
    Slosson, contra,
    objected, that no copy of the certificate of the cleric had been served on the plaintiff, and that the affidavit did not state that an inquest had been taken by default, nor that it was taken out of its order on the ca- ■ . lendar.
    Johnson, in reply observed, that the notice of the motion, to the ¡plaintiff’s attorney was to set aside the inquest taken by default in the cause; that the plaintiff ’s attorney must know that it was taken out of its order, and that the , . > . , „ certificate was merely to satisfy the court as to that fact.
   Per Curiam.

The affidavit of the defendant ought to ° , state, that fin inquest was taken by default in the cause. The certificate of the clerk cannot be received unless a copy of it has been served on the opposite attorney. But as there appears to have been some misapprehension by the attorney for the defendant, as to the practice, he may give new notice, and make his application again at the last non-¡enumerated day in this term:

N. B. The application was renewed, on the last non* enumerated day, on a new affidavit, upon which the court granted the rule.

Rule granted.