Case Name: Billington v. Billington
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1888-11
Citations: 4 N.Y.S. 504
Docket Number: 
Parties: Billington v. Billington.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 4
Pages: 504–504

Head Matter:
Billington v. Billington.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Fourth Department.
November, 1888.)
Appeal—Appealable Orders—Supplementary Proceedings in County Courts.
Under Code Civil Proc. N. Y. §§ 1342, 2433, 3017, providing that appeals from orders affecting substantial rights, made by county courts in actions brought therein or pending therein on appeal, may be taken to the general term of the supreme court; that justices’ judgments docketed in the county clerk’s office become judgments of the county court; and that orders made by county courts in proceedings supplementary to executions issued upon their judgments are appealable in the same manner as orders in actions in said courts, while such orders in other courts are reviewable in the first instance by motion only,—an order made by the county court in proceedings on a judgment so docketed, requiring the defendant to pay money to the sheriff, is appealable to the general term.
Appeal from county court.
Argued before Hardin, P. J„ and Follett and Martin, JJ.
S. J. Billington, for appellant. B. M. Bailey, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff recovered two judgments against the defendant in a justice's court for more than $25 each. Transcripts were duly filed, and judgments duly docketed by the county clerk, and thereby the justice's judgments became judgments of the county court. Code Civil Proc. § 3017. Proceedings supplementary to execution' were duly begun upon these judgments before a county judge, who made an order, pursuant to section 2447 of the Code of Civil Procedure, requiring the defendant to pay certain moneys to the sheriff of the county, from which order the defendant appeals. The respondent insists that the order is not appealable, and that the appeal should be dismissed. Section 2433 of the Code provides that orders made in supplementary proceedings shall be reviewed only by the two modes specified in that section: (1) Orders made in proceedings supplementary to executions issued upon judgments other than judgments of county courts must be reviewed in the first instance by motion. (2) Orders made in proceedings supplementary to executions issued out of a county court must be reviewed in the first instance by an appeal, "taken in like manner as if the order was made in an action brought in the same court. " Orders affecting substantial rights, made by a county court, or by a county judge, in an action brought in, or taken by appeal to, a county court, are appealable to the general term. Section 1342. In Finck v. Mannering, 46 Hun, 323, the proceedings were supplementary to an execution issued out of the supreme court, and the appeal was dismissed because the order was sought to be reviewed in the first instance by appeal, instead of by motion; but it was distinctly stated that orders like the one now before the court must be reviewed in the first instance by appeal.
The appeal is well taken; but an examination of the evidence convinces us that the order is right on the merits, and should be affirmed. Order affirmed, with $10 costs and printing disbursements.