Case Name: MILLBANK against THE BROADWAY BANK
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1867-06
Citations: 3 Abb. Pr. 223
Docket Number: 
Parties: MILLBANK against THE BROADWAY BANK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Abbott's Practice Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 223–224

Head Matter:
MILLBANK against THE BROADWAY BANK.
Supreme Court, First District; Special Term,
June, 1867.
Filing Undertaking.—Omission how cured.
When a plaintiff commences an action without filing an undertaking required by law as a condition precedent to suing, the court may (under section 174 of the Code of Procedure) allow it to be filed nunc pro tunc.
Motion for leave to filé an undertaking.
This was an action prosecuted by an attachment creditor to collect a demand due from defendants to the debtor in the attachment, upon which the attachment had been levied. The objection was taken that the plaintiff had not filed the proper undertaking; and he now applied for leave to do so.

Opinion:
Ingraham, J.
In this case judgment was given on the demurrer for the defendants, because the plaintiff had not, before suit, filed the undertaking required by section 238 of the Code.
The plaintiff now moves for leave to file the- undertaking nunc pro tunc. The defendants object that this cannot be allowed, because the filing of the undertaking is- a preliminary requisite to be done before commencing the action.
The Code, § 174, provides that when any proceeding fails to conform to the provisions of the Code, the court may permit an amendment of such proceeding so as to make it conformable thereto, and supply any-omission therein. ' Section 173 allows any proceeding to be amended by correcting a mistake in any respect. Under this section an undertaking in arrest has been amended, (12 How. Pr., 381); and an undertaking on attachment. (10 Abb. Pr., 424.)
Under these provisions and decisions I think this motion may be granted. The filing of tlu: undertaking was a neces sary step ibo be taken, in bringing the action, and the omission to file it may be supplied. The plaintiff must pay all the costs on the demurrer and the costs of this motion.