Court Opinion

ID: 5456026
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 19:19:34.929287+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:39.638175
License: Public Domain

By the Court.*—Ingraham, P. J. (orally.)
Upon *47this appeal we cannot consider the question whether the issues involving the examination of an account were material or not. When the motion for a reference was made, the plaintiff had already set up his claim for an accounting. This claim was in the pleadings, and formed a part of the issues.
The defendant should have disposed of this issue, if it be immaterial, if he desired to send the case to a jury. Not having done so, and the issue being in the pleadings, it was within the power of the court to order a reference.
The order must be affirmed.

Present—Ingraham, P. J., and George G. Barnard, J.. In this case, Cardozo, J., having made the order appealed from, did not sit.