Case Name: Pugsley against Van Alen
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1811-08
Citations: 8 Johns. 352
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pugsley against Van Alen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 352–353

Head Matter:
Pugsley against Van Alen.
Where a rale to set siside o. <lefault and subsequeut proceedings was granted om payment eosti, and the lariy Tiemancfed sif the defendant hut not paid, and the plaintiff, afterwards, issued an execution on the.judgment, the court refused to set aside tU
is granted on payment of costs it is conditional, and is of no force, unless the costs be paid innlantevi and the party who is to pay costs, must seek and tender themto tile other party.
upon payment of costs. A RULE was granted, at the last Matt term, on mo- ^ “ tion of the defendant, to set aside the default entered in , . ,. ,. , , ,. , this cause for want of a plea, and all subsequent pro- ,. ceedmgs,
The costs were taxed, and regularly demanded of the defendant on the 24th of June last, and not being paid, J 1 the plaintiff, more than a month after the demand, issued ., . , , . . an execution on the judgment he had obtained, prior tb , , P - May term, by default.
Pura Burén
now moved to set aside the execution, a.s ;rreguIar. °
Vanderpoel, contra,
cited 1 Johns. Cas. 396. 2 Johns. Cas. 114.

Opinion:
per Curiam,
The rule was conditional, and of no This is the import force, without the payment of costs, . . of the rule as entered, it being granted " on payment of costs." The plaintiff must have been regular, and the defendant admitted to plead at the last term as a favour, or the condition of paying costs would not have been, imposed. This being the case, it would not be reasonable that the favour should be obtained absolutely, and the plaintiff driven to the tedious process of recovering the costs by attachment. It may be doubted whether the rule would admit of the construction that the party is in contempt for not paying the costs, as he was not ordered to pay them, but only admitted to a favour on that con dition, and it was left to his volition whether or not he would comply with that condition. If a new trial be granted on payment of costs, this rule, say the books, is conditional, and they must be forthwith paid. (Impey's K. B. 252.) So, when leave is given to a party to amend, it is on the like condition. (2 Cromp. 458.) We have an analogous case in this court. In Jackson, ex dem. Onderdonk, v. Weston, May term, 1803, the court, according to an original note of the case, said that " where a plaintiff is nonsuited, and comes for a favour, to set it aside, and it is set aside, on payment of costs, those costs must be paid instanter, and the party who is to pay must go and seek the other party."
Motion denied.