Court Opinion

ID: 6144275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 14:55:43.547562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:54:47.895858
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By the court, Monell, J.
The practice which has prevailed to some extent of allowing a respondent to notice an appeal for argument, place the cause upon the calendar, and *367upon its call to move for an affirmance of the judgment, notwithstanding the “case” had not been served, or had not been settled, or had not been filed, or the printed case had not been served, has occupied so much of the time of the court in hearing motions to open defaults, or to postpone arguments, which motions are made upon oral statements of counsel, not always uncontradicted, that it has become necessary for the court to determine that such practice shall no longer be allowed.
It is not intended to leave parties without remedy, for the court is satisfied that the existing rules furnish all the relief necessary.
The consequences of omitting, to do any of these things within the prescribed times are fully expressed in the rule.
Those rules provide that a party desiring to move for a new trial, or to review by appeal, shall, within ten days after the verdict, decision, 'or report, make and serve on the adverse party a “ case or exceptions.” The party served may, within ten days thereafter, propose amendments. The case and améndments shall, within four days, be noticed for settlement (Rule 34). Within ten days after the “case” is settled, it shall be filed (Rule 37).
Until the “case” is settled and filed (when it is to be annexed to and become a part of the judgment-roll) the cause is not in readiness to he noticed for hearing, or To he put upon the calendar of the general term.
Another rule (42) requires that the party whose duty it is to furnish the papers to be used on the appeal shall serve copies upon the adverse party at least eight days before the term at which the appeal “may” be noticed for argument. If not served, the opposite party may put the cause upon the calendar and move, on any of the motion days in term, to have the cause stricken from the calandar, and for judgment.
The only motion, therefore, which can be made at general term is under the last mentioned rule—which motion must be on notice, accompanied by an affidavit of the facts upon *368which it is founded; and it must in all cases be made to appear that the “ case ” has been filed for a time sufficient, with reasonable diligence, to have it printed and served.
All other motions, if any are necessary, to hasten the progress of the appeal, or to put it in a condition to be heard, must be made at special term.
We have, therefore, determined no longer to allow judgments to be affirmed on the call of the calendar, if the “ case” has not been settled and filed; and we have directed the cleric not to place upon the calendar of the general term any cause in which the “case” has not been settled and filed pursuant to an order of the judge or referee who tried the cause directing its filing, unless otherwise directed by a' justice of the court