Case Name: Anonymous
Court: New York Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1837-08-21
Citations: 3 Edw. Ch. 136
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anonymous.
Judges: 
Reporter: Edwards' Chancery Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 136–136

Head Matter:
Anonymous.
August 21. 1837.
Practice.. Hearing on bills pro confesso.
Where a solicitor appears for a defendant and the bill is taken as confessed, the complainant cannot move the cause out of its order, unless he has expressed an intention of doing so in his notice of hearing.

Opinion:
Counsel, on a motion day, were about moving upon master's reports in cases taken pro confesso, but where defendants had appeared by solicitors. Notices of moving for decrees had been served : but the Vice-Chancellor considered, notwithstanding the phraseology of the 92d rule, that these cases could not be taken up except when regularly called, unless, in the notice of hearing, the solicitors for the defendants were informed of the intention to move the cause out of its order on the calendar. Counsel, therefore, gave fresh notices, adding, to the usual notice of hearing upon bill taken as confessed and master's report: " and that immediately prior thereto a motion will be made to take this cause out of its order on the calendar."