Case Name: Samuel Penniman, Appellant, v. Amelia J. LaGrange, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1898-03
Citations: 23 Misc. 121
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Penniman, Appellant, v. Amelia J. LaGrange, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 121–121

Head Matter:
Samuel Penniman, Appellant, v. Amelia J. LaGrange, Respondent.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
March, 1898.)
District courts of New York — Loss of jurisdiction, by a failure to render judgment in time.
Where the record shows that a trial justice, of a District Court in the city of New York, failed to render judgment within eight days after the trial and submission to him of the case, the judgment must be reversed, as he has lost jurisdiction. (Laws of 1882, chap. 410, § 1384.)
Appeal from aj judgment of the District Court of the City of Yew York for the eighth judicial district, rendered by the justice without a jury, in favor of -the defendant.
William L. Mathot, for appellant.
William J. Walsh, for respondent.

Opinion:
Beekman, P. J.
The record before us shows that the trial justice lost jurisdiction of the action by his failure to render judgment within eight days after the trial,- and the submission of the case to Mm for decision. Section 1384 of the Consolidation Act of the City of Yew York; Bloomer v. Merrill, 1 Daly, 485; Orvis v. Curtiss, 8 Misc. Rep. 681; 28 N. Y. Supp. 728. In the (case last cited, wMch was decided by the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas, it was held that, where tMs omission appears upon the face of the return, the judgment-should he reversed. Such must, therefore, he our disposition of tMs appeal.' The conclusion to which we have come precludes us from reviewing the judgment on the merits. Judgment reversed, with costs.
Gilderslbeve and Giegerich, JJ., concur.
Judgment reversed, with costs.