Case Name: Samuel White and Another, Respondents, v. Edwin M. Hall and Others, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1896
Citations: 8 A.D. 618
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel White and Another, Respondents, v. Edwin M. Hall and Others, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 618–619

Head Matter:
Samuel White and Another, Respondents, v. Edwin M. Hall and Others, Appellants.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, without prejudice to another application upon new papers.

Opinion:
Per Curiam :
The rule that an application of this kind cannot be granted without an affidavit of merits in proper form is too well settled to be now questioned. The affidavit of merits submitted by the defendants in this action was clearly insufficient, and for that reason the motion below was properly denied. The moving affidavit of Henry L. Clark was also insufficient in that it states that he expects to prove certain things by witnesses, and not that he can prove them. (See McPhail v. Ridout, 83 Hun, 446; Thurfjell v. Witherbee 70 id. 401.) We do not wish to be understood as passing upon the merits of this application, and this decision is without prejudice to a renewal of the motion at Special Term upon proper affidavits. Present—Barrett, Rumsey, Patterson and Ingraham, JJ.