Case Name: Bruce agt. Pinckney
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1853-07
Citations: 8 How. Pr. 397
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bruce agt. Pinckney.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 397–398

Head Matter:
SUPREME COURT.
Bruce agt. Pinckney.
An appeal can not be taken from an order of the special term overruling a demurrer as frivolous. Judgment must first be entered, and the appeal brought upon that. (See Code, § 247.)
Dutchess General Term,
July, 1853.
Judges Barculo, Brown, and S. B. Strong.
C. D. Newman, for Plaintiff.
J. H. H. Pinckney, for Defendant.

Opinion:
By the Court—Barculo P. Justice.
The sole question presented by this case is this, can an appeal he brought from a decision of the special term overruling a demurrer as frivolous as an order ?
We are of the opinion that such an appeal is not authorized by the Code; and that judgment must first be entered upon the decision of the special term, and an appeal he brought from the judgment. The authority for treating a frivolous demurrer is found in section 247, which provides that " if a demurrer, answer, or reply be frivolous, the party prejudiced thereby, upon a previous notice of five days, may apply to a judge of the court, either in or out of the court, for judgment thereon; and judgment maybe given accordingly." The application in the present case must have been made under this section, and the decision below must have been a judgment, if any thing. It clearly cannot, therefore, he treated as an order for the purpose of an appeal.
Appeal dismissed.