Case ID: misc_35/html/0234-01.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      Blanchard, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Julia Diehl, as Administratrix, etc., Plaintiff, v. Andrew Robinson, Defendant.
    (Supreme Court, New York Special Term,
    June, 1901.)
    Amendment — Of answer, denied for defective papers and laches.
    A motion to amend an answer must be denied where the .proposed amended answer is not verified by the defendant, where he does not make the affidavit for the motion, and where no reason is disclosed why he did not.
    Such a motion, involving the denial of matter theretofore admitted, should not be granted where the defendant does not make it until ■the case is on the day calendar for trial.
    Application by defendant for leave to amend answer.
    Browne & Sheehan (Frederick W. Block, of counsel), for plaintiff.
    Nadal, Smyth & Carrere (L. Sidney Carrere, of counsel), for defendant.
   Blanchard, J.

This is an application by defendant for leave to amend his answer by withdrawing therefrom an admission as to the elevators being in charge of and under the control of and operated and managed by defendant, his agents, servants and employees, and substituting therefor a denial thereof. The proposed amended answer is not verified by the defendant, nor does the defendant make the affidavit upon which the motion is made; Neither do the moving papers disclose any reason why the affidavit is not made by defendant. The motion, therefore, must be denied. Aborn v. Waite, 30 Misc. Rep. 317. Besides, I am convinced, from a careful consideration of the facts presented on this motion, that to allow the amendment permitting defendant to deny that which he has previously admitted, and upon which admission plaintiff has rested down to the present time, the case being on the Day Calendar for trial, would not be in furtherance of justice,” as provided by section 723 of the Code. Smith v. City of Athens, 74 Hun, 26. The motion must be denied, with ten dollars costs.

Motion denied, with ten dollars costs.