Case Name: Dillon Beebe, Jr., Respondent, v. Nassau Show Case Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1899-06
Citations: 41 A.D. 456
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dillon Beebe, Jr., Respondent, v. Nassau Show Case Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 456–457

Head Matter:
Dillon Beebe, Jr., Respondent, v. Nassau Show Case Company, Appellant.
New York Municipal Oourt — an appeal lies, not from an order denying a motion to meate a judgment entered by default, but from the judgment.
An order of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, denying a motion to vacate a judgment of that court, entered by default, is not appealable. The remedy of the aggrieved party is by an appeal from the judgment, as provided by section 3064 of the Code of Civil Procedure, Avhich is made applicable to the Municipal Court of the city of New York by section 1369 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378).
Appeal by the defendant, the Nassau Show Case Company, from an order of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 7th day of March, 1899, •denying its motion to vacate a judgment rendered against it by default.
Frederick W. Mattocks, for the appellant.
Henry J. McCormick, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam :
The defendant moved, upon affidavits excusing his default, to have 'the judgment entered in the action set aside. The plaintiff opposed the motion upon affidavits, and if we were authorized to review the question, we should have no hesitancy in agreeing with the disposition of the case made by the court below. The order, however, is not appealable. The practice in these cases is regulated by statute, and there must be statutory authority for an appeal, or no jurisdiction is conferred upon an appellate tribunal to review the same. (Jacobs v. Zeltner, 9 Misc. Rep. 455.) The defendant is not aided by section 1367 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 3897, chap. 378), or by section 1367 of chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, -as amended by the Laws of 1896, chapter 748, made applicable to the Municipal Court of the city of New York by section 1369 of the •Greater New York charter. Therein is provided a right of appeal from an order opening a default, and it is required that such order shall recite the grounds upon which the same was granted. But no -•authority exists, giving the right of appeal from an order which denies a motion to open a default. Under such circumstances the only remedy of the party is by an appeal from the judgment, as provided in section 3064 of the Code of Civil Procedure. (Kellock v. Dickinson, 5 App. Div. 515.) By virtue of the provisions of section 1367, Greater New York charter, the article of the Code in which the above section is found is made applicable to appeals from the Municipal Court. The practice in this respect is correctly set forth in Campbell v. Lumley (24 Misc. Rep. 196).
It follows that the appeal should be dismissed.
All concurred.
Appeal dismissed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.