Case ID: barb_12/html/0301-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Edmonds, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Aymar vs. Chace.
    A judge at chambers, has no power to render a judgment for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff has not replied to the answer.
    Appeal from an order made by a single judge at chambers, denying a motion on the part of the defendant for judgment, on the ground that the plaintiff had not replied to the answer.
   By the Court,

Edmonds, P. J.

In this case, a motion was made at chambers, for judgment for the defendant in the suit, because the plaintiff had not replied to the answer. The motion was denied, and from the order denying it, an appeal was taken.

That order was right. There is but one cape in which a judge at chambers can grant a judgment, and that is under § 247 of the code, where if a demurrer, answer or reply be frivolous, the party prejudiced thereby may apply to a judge, either in or out of court, for judgment thereon, and judgment may be given accordingly. In all other cases, judgment can be rendered only by the court when sitting as such, and not by a judge at his lodgings, in the street, or even in chambers.

[New-York General Term,

December 1, 1851.

The order must be affirmed with costs.

Edmonds, Mitchell and King, Justices.]