Case Name: Leslie R. Pratt, Appellant, v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-02
Citations: 66 Misc. 183
Docket Number: 
Parties: Leslie R. Pratt, Appellant, v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 66
Pages: 183–184

Head Matter:
Leslie R. Pratt, Appellant, v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Respondent.
(Two actions.)
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
February, 1910.)
Marine Courts — Procedure—Pleading — Complaint — Sufficiency — Necessity of alleging residence to sustain jurisdiction.
A plaintiff’s residence in this State, although necessary to confer jurisdiction upon the Municipal Court of the city of New York to entertain an action, need not be alleged in the complaint.
Appeals by the .plaintiff from two orders of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, seventh district, borough of Manhattan, sustaining defendant’s demurrers to the amended complaints herein.
Allen & Culver, for appellant.
Robinson, Biddle & Benedict (Herman B. Beecher, George R. Allen and W. W. Cunningham, of counsel), for respondent. •

Opinion:
Per Gwriam.
Defendant demurred because it did not affirmatively appear upon the face of the complaint that plaintiff is a resident of the State. If not, the court has not jurisdiction. Code Civ. Pro., § 1780.
The jurisdiction of the Municipal Court does -not have to appear in the pleadings affirmatively any more than that of the Supreme Court. Meuthen v. Eyelis, 3-3 Mise. Rep. 98. The question of the plaintiff's residence, therefore, does not have to appear in this instance. Herbert v. Montana Diamond Co., 81 App. Div. 212. So far as the obiter dicto, in O'Reilly v. New Brunswick A. & N. Y. Steamboat Co., 28 Misc. Rep. 112, conflict, they have been overruled by the case last cited.
The demurrers should, therefore, have been overruled; but judgment has not been entered thereon, and the appeals have been prematurely taken. Watson v. Duryea, 133 App. Div. 233.
The appeals should, therefore, be dismissed, with ten dollars costs.
Present: Seabury, Guy & Whitney, JJ.
Appeals dismissed, with ten dollars costs.