Case Name: Albert Ritchie, as Receiver, Appellant, v. The Seaboard National Bank, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-04
Citations: 12 Misc. 146
Docket Number: 
Parties: Albert Ritchie, as Receiver, Appellant, v. The Seaboard National Bank, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 146–147

Head Matter:
Albert Ritchie, as Receiver, Appellant, v. The Seaboard National Bank, Respondent.
(New York Common Pleas
—Additional General Term,
April, 1895.)
A preference of an action cannot be granted on motion of a party who did not serve a notice of trial.
Appeal from so much of an order made at Trial Term as denied plaintiff’s motion for a preference of the cause.
WilUam D. Tyndall, for appellant.
Herman Acvron, for respondent.

Opinion:
Bisohoff, J.
The determination below that the plaintiff's motion for a preference should be denied is clearly to be supported.
In order that the right to a preference under section 791 of the Code of Civil Procedure may be preserved and successfully invoked, it is essential that the party desiring the preference " serve upon the opposite party, with his notice of trial, a notice that an application will be made to the court, at the opening thereof, for leave to move the same as a preferred cause." Code Civ. Proc. § 793.
In the present case no notice of trial having ever been served, it results that the plaintiff's failure to comply with the statutory requirements deprived him of the benefit sought to be availed of. Fox v. Quinn, 12 N. Y. Supp. 725.
Order affirmed, with costs.
Giegebich, J., concurs.
Order affirmed, with costs.