Case Name: MAASCH v. GRAUER
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-01-10
Citations: 108 N.Y.S. 54
Docket Number: 
Parties: MAASCH v. GRAUER.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 108
Pages: 54–57

Head Matter:
MAASCH v. GRAUER.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
January 10, 1908.)
1. Action—Splitting Causes oe Action.
A cause of action cannot be split up and a separate action brought on each part, but only one action may be maintained for one cause of action in its entirety.
£Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 1, Action, §§ 549, 550.]
2. Judgment—Res Judicata.
A judgment is res judicata of all parts of the cause of action, whether included in the complaint or not, including all incidental relief prayed for in the complaint specifically, or embraced in the general prayer, or which might have been prayed for in the complaint and given by judgment.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 30, Judgment, §§ 1234-1240.]
3. Fraudulent Conveyances—Recovery of Rents from Fraudulent GranTEE.
The right of a judgment creditor, suing to set aside a conveyance of real estate by the debtor in fraud of creditors, to require the fraudulent grantee to account for the rents received by him, is enforceable in the action and is included in the relief; and the creditor, after prevailing in the action, cannot maintain a separate suit to compel the fraudulent grantee to account for the rents.
Hooker, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Special Term, Kings County.
Action by Emma Maasch against August G. Grauer. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed, and judgment given for defendant.
Argued before WOODWARD, JENKS, HOOKER, RICH, and GAYNOR, JJ.
Charles H. Street (Leander B. Faber, on the brief), for appellant. Guy C. Frisbie, for respondent.

Opinion:
GAYNOR, J.
The plaintiff, having prevailed in her action as a judgment creditor to set aside a conveyance of real property by the judgment debtor to this defendant in fraud of creditors, brought this action to make the defendant account for the rents and profits thereof received by him as fraudulent grantee. Judgment should have been given for the defendant. A cause of action cannot be split up, and a separate action brought on each part. Only one action may be maintained for one cause of action in its entirety, and the judgment therein is res adjudicata of all parts of such cause of action whether included in the complaint or omitted, including all incidental relief prayed for in the complaint specifically or by being embraced in the general prayer, or which might have been prayed for in the complaint and given by the judgment. Bendernagle v. Cocks, 19 Wend. 207, 32 Am. Dec. 448; Bracken v. Atlantic Trust Co., 167 N. Y. 510, 60 N. E. 772, 82 Am. St. Rep. 731; Hahl v. Sugo, 169 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 135, 61 L. R. A. 226, 88 Am. St. Rep. 539; Remsen v. N. Y., etc., Ry. Co., 111 App. Div. 413, 97 N. Y. Supp. 902; Clemens v. Clemens, 37 N. Y. 59; Bloomer v. Sturges, 58 N. Y. 168; Jordan v. Van Epps, 85 N. Y. 427.
The right of the plaintiff to make .the defendant account for the rents and profits could have been enforced in her action to set aside the fraudulent conveyance. It was of that cause of action, and included in the relief that could be obtained therein. If it were a separate cause of action it could have been omitted, for the rule is not that separate causes of action must be united, if possible, in the same complaint, but -only that a cause of-action shall not be split up:
The judgment should be reversed and judgment given for the defendant.
Judgment reversed, and judgment ordered for defendant, with costs. All concur, except HOOKER, J., who dissents.