Case Name: Samuel A. Coon agt. Linnarus P. Noble
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1846-02
Citations: 2 How. Pr. 97
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel A. Coon agt. Linnarus P. Noble.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 97–97

Head Matter:
Samuel A. Coon agt. Linnarus P. Noble.
Where defendant is served with a declaration in this court, and the notice to plead indorsed on it requires him to plead mien days, &c.; and his default is not entered until more than twenty days have expired from the time of service; it is an irregularity which will on motion set aside the default and all subsequent proceedings with costs.
February Term, 1846.
Motion by defendant to set aside default, judgment and subsequent proceedings, for irregularity.
In this case copy narr in this court was served on defendant, with a notice indorsed on the bach by plaintiff’s .attorney, requiring defendant to plead thereto in ten days, &c.; service made on defendant on the 27th December last. Defendant swore to merits, and that he did not have time to consult his counsel and make his defence in ten days after the service of the declaration. Plaintiff’s attorney showed that defendant’s default was not entered until the 19th Jan., 1846, more than twenty days after the service of the declaration; that through inadvertence, and having, at the time, declarations in the Albany mayor’s court, which requires defendants to plead in ten days by the *rules, he drew the notice to plead on the back of this declaration, and stated the time to plead at ten days instead of twenty.
H. Harris, defendants counsel and attorney.
J. Koon, plaintiff's counsel and attorney.

Opinion:
Bronson, Chief Justice.
Held: that such an irregularity must take the usual course, and granted the motion with costs.