Case Name: Snelling v. Yetter
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1898-02-11
Citations: 49 N.Y.S. 921
Docket Number: 
Parties: SNELLING v. YETTER.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 49
Pages: 921–922

Head Matter:
SNELLING v. YETTER.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
February 11, 1898.)
New Trial—Resettlement or Order—Exceptions.
Where, on a motion to resettle an order denying a motion for a new trial, made after a dismissal of the complaint on a trial by jury, it appears that plaintiff did in fact take an exception to the dismissal of the complaint, which, though informal, was sufficient, under Code Civ. Proc. § 999, to warrant the hearing and decision of the motion for a new trial on the minutes, the original order should be resettled so as to read that the motion therein referred to was made on plaintiff’s exception to the dismissal of the complaint.
Van Brunt, P. J., dissenting.
Appeal from special term.
Action by Abbie E. Spelling against Andrew B. Tetter. From an order denying a motion to resettle an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before VAN BBUNT, P. J., and BARRETT, RUMSEY, PATTERSON, and O’BRIEN, JJ.
L. B. Bedfield, for appellant.
J. Ewen, for respondent.

Opinion:
BARRETT, J.
As we have held upon the main appeal that the plaintiff took a sufficient exception to the dismissal of the complaint to warrant the hearing and decision of the motion for a new trial upon the trial justice's minutes, we think the order appealed from should be modified so as to permit the fact that such exception was taken to appear therein. The learned counsel for the plaintiff, in his application for a resettlement, asked more than he was entitled to, and specified grounds which were not taken. That, however, does not deprive him of a resettlement as to the ground which actually was taken.
The order denying the motion for a resettlement should therefore be reversed, and an order made resettling the original order so as to read that the motion therein referred to was made upon the plaintiff's exception to the dismissal of the complaint, without costs of this appeal.
RUMSEY, PATTERSON, and O'BRIEN, JJ., concur.