Case Name: Nathan Fishbein, Appellant, v. Blanche Fishbein, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1917-06
Citations: 179 A.D. 883
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nathan Fishbein, Appellant, v. Blanche Fishbein, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 179
Pages: 883–883

Head Matter:
Nathan Fishbein, Appellant, v. Blanche Fishbein, Respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk’s office March 30, 1917, dismissing the complaint for insufficiency of evidence upon a trial at Special Term.

Opinion:
Pee Curiam:
Without expressing any opinion with respect to the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant an annulment of the marriage, we affirm the judgment on the ground that the defendant was an infant and that the court was, therefore, justified, when the plaintiff moved the case for trial without having a guardian ad litem appointed for defendant, in dismissing the complaint, for plaintiff could not in those circumstances take judgment by default. (See Code Civ. Proc. § 1218.) The judgment should be affirmed, without costs. Present — Clarke, P. J., Laughlin, Scott, Davis and Shearn, JJ. Judgment affirmed, without costs.