Case Name: LIVINGSTON a. ROBERTS
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1856-09
Citations: 3 Abb. Pr. 231
Docket Number: 
Parties: LIVINGSTON a. ROBERTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Abbott's Practice Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 231–231

Head Matter:
LIVINGSTON a. ROBERTS.
New York Superior Court ;
Special Term, September, 1856.
“Secured on Appeal.”—Notice to Sureties.
Notice of a motion, on the part of an appellant, for an order under the last sentence of section 282 of the Code, directing an entry on the docket that á judgment appealed from is “ secured on appeal need not be given to the appellant’s sureties.
It is enough that it is given to the owner of the judgment appealed from.
Motion for an order directing the clerk to make an entry on the docket of a judgment that the same was secured on appeal.
The plaintiff having obtained a judgment, the defendant appealed to the general term, and gave an undertaking which operates as a stay of proceedings. He now moved, under section 282 of the Code, for an order that the clerk enter on the docket of the judgment, that it was “ secured on appeal.” Notice of the motion had been given to the owner of the judgment. The plaintiff objected that no notice had been given to the sureties in the undertaking.

Opinion:
Bosworth, J.
Code does not require notice to the sureties, but only to the owner of the judgment. It is true the Code declares the court may make this order on such terms as it shall see fit. These terms, it was doubtless supposed, would be such as would be for the benefit of the owner of the judgment. Sureties may fail or become embarrassed before such a motion is made. When that is found to be the case, the court would not grant the order without further security was given. The legislature has not seen fit to require notice to be given to the sureties. As the owner of the judgment suggests no reason why the motion should not be granted, except that no notice was given to the sureties, the motion is granted.
See Munn a. Barnum, 2 Ante, 409.