Court Opinion

ID: 5463058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 19:42:51.510827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:58.893489
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Per Curiam.

_ We must deny the motion; because, in the first place, there were cross verdicts to nearly the [*75] same ’’''amounts. Secondly, the cases were never perfected, and it did not appear to be exclusively the fault of either.(b) Thirdly, the plaintiffs’ attorney not having denied the omission of certain material facts, the court would presume they had appeared on the trial, and ought to be a part of the case. Let the case be perfected within SO days.(c)
Hopkins prayed costs, insisting he had been regular.

Per Curiam.

We consider that the plaintiff was irregular, in not answering, when applied to, whether he would receive amendments or not.
Motion denied.
The Court afterwards said, that where a defendant, after verdict, makes a case and notices for argument, if he does not appear at the time when called, judgment shall go: *111but when the plaintiff notices a case made on the part of the defendant, and the plaintiff is not ready, it shall go down.(a)

 The practice as to noticing for argument, cases made, formerly was, that ¿lie party entitled to bring it on was required so to do in the next term, and on his neglect the opposite party was at liberty to notice. Hoyt and Bennett v. Campbell, Cole. Cas. 128. It has been since ruled, that either party may notice for argument, the right to bring it on at the next term being equal; therefore, if the party whose duty it is to make up the cases, and bring on the argument, be not ready to deliver them to the bench, when the cause is called on, upon the notice of the opposite side, judgment shall go against him. Malcolm ads. Bayard, 1 Johns. Rep. 316. But when a case is noticed on both sides, and called on first, upon the notice of the party not bound to prepare the cases, it is presumed the practice has been, to wait till it be called on upon the notice of the party who is so bound, and has the right to open, and not to allow judgment against him, unless he be not then ready, and the other party is. A cause noticed and not brought on, must be reroticed, as it will not be carried over to the next term, of cawús. Livingston v Rogers, post, 437.

 See Hun v. Bowne, ante, 23, n. (a).

 The time for making a case cannot be enlarged by a judge beyond the two days allowed by the rule of January, 1799, though he may that for proposing amendments, or appearing before him. Hornbeck v. Low, Cole. Cas. 127. But this case is now overruled, and a judge may, in vacation, enlarg* the time for making a case. Black v. Brown 9 Johns. Rep. 264,