Case Name: William Smith, Appellant, v. Peggy Ann Kent, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1940-03-15
Citations: 259 A.D. 117
Docket Number: 
Parties: William Smith, Appellant, v. Peggy Ann Kent, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 259
Pages: 117–117

Head Matter:
William Smith, Appellant, v. Peggy Ann Kent, Respondent.
First Department,
March 15, 1940.
Herman Scheckner of counsel [S. Arthur Glixon, attorney], for the appellant.
Edgar H. A. Chapman of counsel [Reed & Chapman, attorneys], for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Upon this motion to vacate a judgment, entered upon defendant's confession of judgment alleged to be void for lack of consideration and for fraud, the sharply contested issues of fact should not be resolved upon affidavits. The motion should have been denied without prejudice to a plenary action to vacate the judgment. In such action the court may afford adequate protection to the parties. (Cf. 15 R. C. L. § 106, p. 659.)
The order should be reversed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, without prejudice to the maintenance of a plenary action.
Present — Martin, P. J., Townley, Dore, Cohn and Callahan, JJ.
Order unanimously reversed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, without prejudice to the maintenance of a plenary action to vacate judgment.