Case Name: James S. Thompson, as Receiver of the Union Iron Works, Buffalo, N. Y., Respondent, v. Erie Railroad Company, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1905-10-24
Citations: 182 N.Y. 563
Docket Number: 
Parties: James S. Thompson, as Receiver of the Union Iron Works, Buffalo, N. Y., Respondent, v. Erie Railroad Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 182
Pages: 563–564

Head Matter:
James S. Thompson, as Receiver of the Union Iron Works, Buffalo, N. Y., Respondent, v. Erie Railroad Company, Appellant.
(Argued October 5, 1905;
decided October 24, 1905.)
Thompson v. Erie R. R. Co., 105 App. Div. 627, affirmed.
Appeal, by permission, from an. order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial depart ment, entered June 3, 1905, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion to amend a judgment, theretofore entered in the above-entitled action at a Trial Term at which the justice who granted the Special'Term order presided, by striking therefrom a clause making it a judgment on the merits and inserting instead the words “ ordered a nonsuit.”
The following question was certified :
■ “ Had the Special Term the power, under the facts in this case, to make the order complained of?”
Adelbert Moot and Joseph A. Wechter for appellant.
George C. Riley for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs ; question certified answered in the affirmative ; no opinion. °
Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., Cray, Bartlett, Haight, Vann and Werner, JJ. Absent: O'Brien, J.