Case ID: nys_17/html/0644-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dykman, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Quereau v. Brown et al.
    
    
      (Supreme Court, General Term, Second Department.
    
    February 8, 1892.)
    Pleading—Judgment on Overruling Demurrer.
    Under Code Civil Proc. § 1021, providing that the decision of the court on the trial of a demurrer must direct the final or interlocutory judgment to be entered thereon, a defendant, whose demurrer is overruled, with leave to answer within 20 days on payment of costs, although an order to that effect is entered, and notice thereof given, is not in default until after the expiration of 20 days from the entry of an interlocutory judgment and notice thereof. „
    Appeal from special term, Westchester county.
    Action by Harriet E. Quereau against Robert McCord, executor of Stephen Brown, and others. William L. Brown, one of the defendants, appeals from a final judgment entered upon an order overruling a demurrer, and allowing defendant to answer within20 days on payment of costs.
    Reversed.
    Argued before Dykman and Pratt, JJ.
    
      Frost & Manser, for appellant. Silas J. Owens, for respondent.
   Dykman, J.

This is an appeal from an order directing final judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant Henry L. Brown, who demurred to the plaintiff’s complaint. The demurrer was overruled, with leave to the ■defendant to answer within 20 days on payment of costs. An order to that ■effect was entered, but no interlocutory judgment. The defendant did not answer within the 20 days after the service of the order, and thereupon the plaintiff made motion for final judgment against the defendant Brown, which was granted, and this appeal is from that order. The order is erroneous. The defendant desired to appeal from the decision overruling the demurrer, but could not do so until an interlocutory judgment was entered. . The decision upon the demurrer granted the defendant leave to answer, and required an intermediate judgment, and the defendant was not in default until such judgment was entered. Code Civil Proc. § 1021; Liegeois v. McCrackan; 22 Hun, 69; Rum. Pr. 236, 237; Gray v. Rothschild, 13 Civil Proc. R. 359. Under the old Code the appeal could be taken from the order, but now that is changed, and the appeal must be fiom the judgment. Gray v. Rothschild, supra; Bank v. Bussell, 14 Abb. N. C. 99; Bank v. Lynch, 76 N. Y. 514. The order should be reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion should be denied, with $10 costs.