Case Name: Hitchcock vs. Barlow
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1829-08
Citations: 2 Wend. 628
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hitchcock vs. Barlow.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 628–629

Head Matter:
Hitchcock vs. Barlow.
where a party • fend* ’after d<a default, the plaintiff IS not bound to serve declaration. °
Judgment having been obtained against the defendant by default, at the last May term he obtained a rule that he be let in (-0 defend, on payment of the costs of the default and all sub- ’ 1 J . . sequent proceedings, and or opposing the motion for the rule, in twenty days ; the judgment to stand as security for the debt. Within the twenty days, the defendant paid the costs; but did not plead until 27th June, the rule of May term having been granted on the 20th May. A copy of the declaration was never served on the defendant. On this state of facts, the question arose, whether the defendant was bound to plead until after a declaration was served upon him.

Opinion:
By the Court, Sutherland, J.
A defendant who is let in to defend in a case like this, is bound to plead, although not served with a copy of the declaration. It is his business to seek it, and the plaintiff is not bound to furnish it, having already his judgment duly entered, and allowed by the court to stand as security for his debt.