Case Name: Roosevelt against The Heirs of Fulton
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1827-05
Citations: 7 Cow. 107
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Roosevelt against The Heirs of Fulton.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 107–107

Head Matter:
*Roosevelt against The Heirs of Fulton.
NEW YORK,
May, 1827.
if a party afent^butafterwards appear and argue against a new merits°npon1a bill of excepgranted/“this and a vacatur dered. b6
After a bill proposed at the amendmenr proposed, and livered^to the purpose” *of being settled; signed; this is a stay of proceedings.
ceptioM °f8í per se, and order^ a stay
be delivered to settled86 with amendments, an order should be ohtained for time.
0. Graham moved to enter on the record a vacatur of the judgment for the plaintiff in this cause.
One ground of the motion was, that a bill of exceptions ° L had been proposed at the trial, which, before the rule for judgment had been entered, was drawn, amendments pro-posed, and both were delivered to the judge to be settled, The plaintiff perfected his judgment before it was settled siSned b7 the judSe-
Another ground was, that a new trial had been granted (both parties appearing and arguing) on the bill of exceptions as mentioned ante, 71, S. G.
J. I. Roosevelt, contra.

Opinion:
Curia.
The motion must be granted on both grounds. argument was a waiver of the judgment. On the first ground it must be granted with costs. A bill of exceptions proceedings, per se, after it is settled. To be sure, it is drawn and submitted for settlement, time should be . . obtained by order; but when once the draft and amendments are delivered to the judge, we have always considered the bill complete for the purpose of staying proceed-ings; though it be not settled and signed in fact. The party bas tben done every thing in his power towards perfecting it; and ought not to be prejudiced by the time which is required by the judge to review, and make it conform to ¿he truth of the case.
. . , Motion granted with costs,