Case Name: Anonymous
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1824-05
Citations: 2 Cow. 578
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anonymous.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 578–579

Head Matter:
Anonymous.
Tho’ a debTrfgned™by counsel, yet if it is not so •signed, and the ney°S<m ifs^being served,sign that ad/™SS/ms been served with a demmurrerj &c., this is a waiver of the defect, and he cannot treat it as a nullity
Demurrer. A copy of a demurrer to a declaration had been served on the plaintiff’s attorney, which was not signed by counsel: but the plaintiff’s attorney signed an admission. J 1 _ , that he had been served ivitha copy of a demurrer, and a n0^ce of the rule to join in demurrer. He afterwards went on and took a default for want of a plea, on the ground that the demurrer was not signed by counsel.
P. W. Radcliff,
moved to set this default aside.
J Hoyt, contra,
said, the demurrer not being signed by counsel, was a nullity.
Radcliff.
It does not lie with the plaintiff’s attorney to say this, after he has admitted the service of a demurrer. It is a waiver of the defect. The admission imports a perfect demurrer, and the defendant’s attorney should not after-wards be entrapped by its being considered a nullity;

Opinion:
And of this opinion was the Court; and they
Granted the motion, with costs.