Case ID: ad_87/html/0287-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ingraham, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Union Surety and Guaranty Company, Plaintiff, v. The Greater New York Amusement Company, Respondent. James R. Kiernan, as Receiver of The Greater New York Amusement Company, Appellant.
    
    
      Appeal — it does not lie from so much of an order denying a motion as authorizes it& renewal.
    
    A party who successfully opposes the granting of a motion is not prejudiced by a provision in the order denying the motion, reserving to.the defeated party the right to renew it, and consequently cannot appeal from so much of the order as confers this privilege on the defeated party.
    Appeal by James R. Kiernan, as receiver of The Greater New York Amusement Company, from so much of an order of the. Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of July, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for the discharge of the receiver, as gives such defendant leave to renew the motion upon compliance with certain terms and conditions.
    
      
      John Vernon Bouvier, Jr., for the appellant.
    
      Franklin Bien, for the respondent.
    
      
       The two actions of H. A. Thomas and Wylie Lithographing Company and. Others v. Greater New York Amusement Company and Edward G. Hauselt and Another v. Greater New York Amusement Company were heard with the above-entitled action.—[Rep.
    
   Ingraham, J.:

This action was brought for the sequestration of the property of the defendant, a domestic corporation, and final judgment was entered appointing the defendant Kiernan as permanent receiver of the corporation, -Subsequently an action was'brought by the General Electric Company, a creditor of the defendant corporation, and Kiernan as receiver thereof, to set aside certain transfers of property or money made by the defendant corporation, which action was defended by the corporation, but after a trial judgment for the plaintiff was entered which directed that the defendants in that action deliver certain property to the receiver, or pay its value, found at upwards of $59,000. Subsequently all creditors of the defendant corporation, including the plaintiff, settled their claims, except two, one being for $870 and the other for $175, both of these creditors having judgments against the corporation. Thereupon the defendants and those owning all the stock of the corporation, made an application to the court for an order discharging the receiver, upon the payment by. the corporation of the two unpaid judgments ($870 and $175), and staying the receiver from all further act or interference as receiver, except to collect and pay the said two judgments. In answer to this application the receiver submitted an affidavit stating that he had received no notice that the judgments against the corporation had been paid; that he had incurred a bill for legal services and disbursements to his attorney; that there were no assets of said corporation in his hands, and that no assets had come into his hands. This application was denied, with leave to renew upon the moving parties making certain payments to the receiver, and from so much of the order as grants leave to renew the receiver .appeals. ■

It is apparent that the receiver is not aggrieved by the order appealed from. No relief is granted, the application having been denied. If the defendant should renew this motion upon the leave granted, the receiver would then have an opportunity of opposing it; and if any order is granted affecting his interest, he could review that order by an appeal. But merely reserving to' a defeated party the right to renew an application which was denied is not a ground for appeal by the successful party.

It follows that the appeal must be dismissed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

Van Brunt, P. J., Patterson, Hatch and Laughlin, JJ., concurred.

Appeal dismissed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.