Case Name: Mellis Construction Corp., Respondent, v. John Schaefer and Rose Schaefer, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-02-28
Citations: 253 A.D. 923
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mellis Construction Corp., Respondent, v. John Schaefer and Rose Schaefer, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 253
Pages: 923–923

Head Matter:
Mellis Construction Corp., Respondent, v. John Schaefer and Rose Schaefer, Appellants.

Opinion:
Action for breach of contract. Order of the City Court of Mount Vernon granting plaintiff's motion to set aside the verdict in its favor for fifty dollars and ordering a new trial unanimously affirmed, with costs. The motion was made at the same term within the meaning of section 549 of the Civil Practice Act. Rule IV of the City Court of Mount Vernon specifies the beginning of the jury trial terms, but does not specify the concluding date. A fair interpretation, therefore, is that a trial term does not conclude until the beginning of the succeeding term unless it be in the meantime adjourned without date. The trial term during which this trial was had began, under the rule, on the second Monday of September, and that term, therefore, in the absence of proof of an adjournment, continued until the beginning of the next succeeding term, which is stated in the rule to be one which begins on the second Monday in November. Here the trial was had on September twenty-second and the motion to set aside brought on on October 26, 1937, under an order to show cause dated October 22, 1937. It was, therefore, timely. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Davis, Adel and Taylor, JJ.