Case Name: John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 1.); John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 2.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1905
Citations: 106 A.D. 386
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 1.) John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 2.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 106
Pages: 386–387

Head Matter:
John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 1.) John Delahunty, Appellant, v. Richard A. Canfield, Respondent. (Action No. 2.)
Stay of one action until the determination of another—it must he on notice — if ' th& venue he in New York the order must he made there.
Where, while two actions brought by the same plaintiff against the same defendant are pending in the Supreme Court in the county of New York, the defend? ant, upon an ex parte application, obtains at the Canas tota Special Term an. order staying all proceedings in one action until the determination of the other, the plaintiff is entitled to have such ex parte order vacated, as under rule 37' of the General Rules of Practice such order could only be made on notice, and under section 769 of the Code of Civil Procedure it could only be made at the New York Special Term.
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Delahunty, in both of the above-entitled actions, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the' county of New York on the 19th day of May, 1905, denying-the plaintiff’s motion to vacate an order bearing date the 8th day of May, 1905, staying proceedings upon the part of the plaintiff in. action No. 1 until the determination of aii appeal from an order denying the defendant’s motion to consolidate the above-entitled actions.,
S. Hanford, for the appellant.
Thomas J. Keenan, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The defendant moved to consolidate these actions — the venue of which was the county of New York. The motion was denied and he appealed to this court. Pending the appeal, without notice to the plaintiff or his attorney, the defendant applied to and obtained from the Canastota Special Term an order staying all proceedings in action No. 1 until the hearing and determination of the appeal.The plaintiff thereupon moved, upon notice at the New York Special Term, to vacate this order. The motion was denied and the plaintiff has appealed.
The motion to vacate should have been granted. The order which the plaintiff asked to have vacated was obtained without notice and in disregard of rule 37 of the General Pules of Practice which required notice. (Dupignac v. Van Buskirk, 44 Hun, 45.) And, irrespective of the rule, the plaintiff was entitled to be heard before an order could be made which indefinitely stayed the prosecution of the action. Notice of the application for the order should have been given, and this being so the motion should have been made at the New York Special Term (in which county the actions were triable) and not at the Canastota Special Term. The Code of of Civil Procedure (§ 769) so provides. The section cited provides that " a motion upon notice "— and this one should have been upon notice — " in an action in the Supreme Court must be made within the judicial district in which the action is triable or in a county adjoining that in which it is triable, except that where it is triable in the first judicial district the motion must be made in that district." If the defendant desired and thought he was entitled to a stay of proceedings he should have made his motion returnable at the New York Special Term and upon notice. Not having done so, but instead having applied, éx parte, to the Canastota Special Term and obtained such order, the plaintiff was entitled to have it vacated.
The order appealed from, therefore, must be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to vacate granted, with ten dollars costs..
Present-^ O'Brien, P. J., Patterson, Ingraham, McLaughlin and Laughlin, JJ.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and' disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.