Case Name: Gilbert A. Wilkin and another, Appellant, agt. Nathaniel Pearce, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1849-05
Citations: 4 How. Pr. 26
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gilbert A. Wilkin and another, Appellant, agt. Nathaniel Pearce, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 26–26

Head Matter:
OOUBT OF APPEALS,
MAY TERM, 1849.
Gilbert A. Wilkin and another, Appellant, agt. Nathaniel Pearce, Respondent.
An attorney should not wait until the last day but one for filing notices of argument or issue, before sending to the clerk to file for the calendar. If he does thus wait, without a sufficient excuse, and circumstances then transpire which prevents his sending Ms notice in season for the calendar he will not be allowed to put it on, whatever Ms excuse may be after that time.
War. Curtis Notes, for respondent,
moved to put this cause on the (present) calendar upon the following affidavit: (Title of the cause.) “ City and County of New York, ss: Joseph S. York, attorney for the respondent in the above cause, being duly sworn, says; that this cause has been regularly noticed on both sides for the present May term of this court, and has been on the calendar for the three last terms of this court. That the day previous to the last on which notes of issue could be filed for the present term, this deponent was suddenly and violently taken sick, so as to unfit him from attending to any professional business, or be able to give his attention thereto, and was thus sick for three days. That this deponent fully and honestly intended to put this cause on the calendar, and would have done so had it not been for his illness. That on his recovery, deponent applied to the clerk of the court to put the cause on the calendar, stating the circumstances of his illness, as the excuse for not filing his note of issue in season; but the clerk declined on the ground that the calendar was in the hands of the printer. That, as deponent believes, both sides are ready for the argument of this cause. “ Sworn to &c..” (Signed.)

Opinion:
The Court denied the application on the ground, that the attorney should not have waited until the last day but one before sending bis notice of argument (or issue) to the clerk for filing.