Case Name: Aeby vs. Rapelyea and others
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1841-06
Citations: 1 Hill & Den. 371
Docket Number: 
Parties: Aeby vs. Rapelyea and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Hill's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 371–372

Head Matter:
Aeby vs. Rapelyea and others.
Where the maker and endorsers of a note are sued together under the act of 1832, and a verdict passes in favor of all the defendants, without any severance of the action, only one judgment can be perfected against the plaintiff
But if there be a severance either before or on the trial, a defendant who succeeds may perfect a separate judgment, without reference to his co-defendants.
Motion to set aside judgments. The defendants, who were the maker and several endorsers of a promissory note, were sued together under the act of 1832, ch. 276. Each of the three parties defended by his own attorney, and a . verdict having passed in . favor of -all the defendants, without any severance, of , the action, .they taxed costs and perfected three several judgments against the plaintiff, which
I. Harris, for the plaintiff, now moved to set aside.
P. Gansevoort, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court, Bronson, J.
"Where there is a severance of the action, either before or on the trial, a defendant who sue- ceeds may perfect a separate judgment against the plaintiff, without reference to the co-defendants. (Statutes of 1832, p. 489, § 4.) . But where, -as in this case, all of the defendants succeed on one trial without a severance of the action, only . one judgment should be perfected against the plaintiff.
Motion granted.