Case ID: how-pr_2/html/0137-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Beardsley, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cornelius C. Colegate et al. agt. Seymour N. Marsh.
    An affidavit of merits for the motion must be served and produced on a motion by defendant to set aside default: the original affidavit of merits accompanying defendant’s plea will not answer. (See ls< HowarWs Practice Reports, 166.)
    
      April Term, 1846.
    Motion by defendant to set aside default and subsequent proceedings.
    '"The defendant’s plea and affidavit of merits annexed were served on the same day that his default had been entered by plaintiffs’ attorney; but after the default had been actually entered, plaintiffs’ attorney refused to accept the service, and returned them to defendant’s attorney, stating that defendant’s default had been entered. Defendant’s papers for this motion contained a copy of the plea and affidavit of merits incorporated in an affidavit of defendant’s attorney, and also the original plea and affidavit of merits served, annexed, but did not contain any affidavit of merits for the motion. Plaintiffs' counsel cited 1 Howard’s Practice Reports, 166.
    O. Allen, Jr., defendant’s counsel.
    
    John Gumming, defendant’s attorney.
    
    H. Harris, plaintiffs’ counsel.
    
    W. H. Taggard, plaintiffs’ attorney.
    
   Beardsley, Justice.

Denied the motion with costs, without prejudice, on the ground that there was no affidavit of merits for the motion.