Case Name: Anon
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1830-08-05
Citations: 5 Wend. 82
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anon.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 82–82

Head Matter:
Anon.
If a special motion be not made at as early a day as with ordinary diligence it can be presented, an excuse must be shewn for the loches, notwithstanding the liequent recurrence of special motion days; and such excuse must be shewn by affidavit and seived on the opposite party.
A question arose, whether under the new organization of the business of the court, allowing special motion days twice in each month, parties would be held io the same practice which has heretofore prevailed, requiring special motions to be made at the earliest, day after the occurring of an- irregularity or the happening of an event rendering an application to the court necessary1?

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Marcy
said, that though the court would be more indulgent than formerly in consequence of the frequent opportunities afforded for the dispalcii of bn.-iness of this kind, still, as they were desirous to prevent the accumulation of if, they would require an excuse to be shewn if motions were not made at as early a day as they might, with ordinary diligence have been presented; which excuse must be shewn by affidavit, and served on the opposite parly.