Case Name: Mollie Lefenfeld, Appellant, v. Samuel Adler, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1906-06
Citations: 51 Misc. 66
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mollie Lefenfeld, Appellant, v. Samuel Adler, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 51
Pages: 66–67

Head Matter:
Mollie Lefenfeld, Appellant, v. Samuel Adler, Respondent.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
June, 1906.)
Municipal Courts — Review — Refusal to grant postponement.
Where upon an adjourned day the plaintiff in an action in the . Municipal Court of the city of New York appears and asks for a further adjournment, which is refused, and judgment is rendered for defendant, there is no default to be opened and plaintiff’s remedy is by appeal from the judgment.
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, fourth district, borough of Manhattan, denying plaintiff’s motion.
Poliak & Deutsch, for appellant.
Leopold W. Harbinger, for respondent.

Opinion:
Lbveetritt, J.
Issue was joined on July 17, 1905; there followed a series of adjournments until January 23, 1906. On that day the plaintiff appeared and requested a further adjournment, which was, however, refused, and judgment was rendered dismissing the complaint with costs. Subsequently the plaintiff moved to vacate the judgment and to open the default. From the order denying that mo~ tion this appeal is taken. The plaintiff has mistaken her remedy. There was no default to be opened, hence the denial of the motion was inevitable. The judgment of dismissal was not the result of nonappearance of the plaintiff on the adjourned day, but of the refusál of the justice to grant her request for a further adjournment. That refusal can be reviewed only on an appeal from the judgment, and that appeal has not been taken. Sections 253 and 254 of the Municipal Court Act do not apply.
Appeal dismissed, with ten dollars costs to the respondent.
Gildebsleeve and McCall, JJ., concur.
Appeal dismissed, with ten dollars costs to respondent.