Case Name: Louise Wingrove, née Unger, Appellant, v. The German Savings Bank in the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1896-03
Citations: 2 A.D. 479
Docket Number: 
Parties: Louise Wingrove, née Unger, Appellant, v. The German Savings Bank in the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 479–480

Head Matter:
Louise Wingrove, née Unger, Appellant, v. The German Savings Bank in the City of New York, Respondent.
Order — amending another order by incorporating therein a matter not before the court malting it, improper.
In an action brought to recover the amount of a deposit made by Henry Geb-. hard, now deceased, in the German Savings Bank, in the name of “ Henry Gebhard in trust for Louisa Unger,” now Louise Wingrove, the plaintiff, it appeared that a pass book was issued by the German Savings- Bank in the form stated; that after Henry Gebhard died the deposit was demanded by the plaintiff and by the administrator of Gebhard, whereupon the defendant moved to interplead the claimants, with the result that on the 31st day of December, 1895, the money was ordered to be deposited with the clerk of the court, and the administrator was substituted as sole defendant; on the 8th day of January, 1896, the bank obtained an order to show cause why there should not be added to the order already granted a provision requiring the plaintiff to deliver to it the pass book; the plaintiff opposed this motion, which was heard before another judge, who on January 33, 1896, made an order amending the first order, and directing the plaintiff to deposit the pass book with the clerk of the court.
Be Id, that the order was improper;
That the matter relative to the disposition of the pass book was not before the judge who made the original order, and that the effect of the amendatory order was to make it appear that he had decided a question which, as a matter of fact, had never been before him for decision.
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louise Wingrove, née Unger, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of January, 1896, adding to an order made at another Special Term held by a different judge, a provision to the effect that plaintiff deposit the pass book mentioned in her complaint with the' clerk of the court within two days after the service of a copy of such order as amended.
Louis Wertheimer, for the appellant.
Joseph A. Arnold, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Van Brunt, P. J.:
This action was brought to recover the amount of a deposit alleged to have been made by one Henry Gebhard, deceased, in the defendant's bank in the name of " Henry Gebhard, in trust for Louise Unger," a pass book for which was issued by the-defendant. After Gebhard's death the plaintiff demanded of the defendant the amount of the deposit.' So did the administrator of the estate of Gebhard, .the said estate being insolvent. • Upon these facts the defendant made a motion for an order to substitute the administrator of Gebhard as defendant in the action, and to discharge the bank from all liability to the plaintiff or to the administrator upon its paying the amount of the deposit into court. This motion was granted, and an Order was entered on the 2lst of December, 1895, directing the deposit by the defendant with .the clerk of the court . before the 10th day of January, 1896, of the sum of $1,000, and that upon making such deposit the administrator of Gebhard should ' be substituted as sole defendant in place of the then defendant. On the 8th of January, 1896, the defendant obtained an order to show cause why there should not be added to the order thereinbefore entered a provision requiring the plaintiff to deliver to the defendant the pass book issued by the defendant and mentioned in the , complaint. This was opposed by the plaintiff and heard by another judge; and on the 23d of January, 1896, an order was entered amending the order of the twenty-first of December, by further ordering, that the plaintiff deposit the pass book mentioned in the complaint with the clerk of the court within two days after the service upon her attorney of a copy of the order with notice of the entry thereof. From that order the present appeal is taken.
It is difficult to see upon' what theory or basis the court could amend an order made at. a previous court held by another judge in the manner attempted,to be done here! No such relief appears to. have been asked for by the original order, and the judge granting the original motion is made to decide a question which never was presented to him. While it may be true that an order may he amended to conform to a decision, it is somewhat difficult to understand how an order can be amended so as to make the court rule upon a question which has never been presented to' it. We do not hereby mean to intimate that even if an independent .application had been made, it should have been granted.
We think the order should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with ten dollars costs.
Barrett, Rumsev, Williams and Patterson, JJ., concurred..
i Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.