Court Opinion

ID: 7359737
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-26 05:54:01.324936+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:30.104733
License: Public Domain

PAGE, J.
This action came on for trial at a Trial Term, and a juror was allowed to be withdrawn on consent of the parties, under a stipulation whereby the defendants were allowed by order of the court 12 days in which to serve an amended answer upon filing a bond in the sum of $600. The defendant’s time to comply with this order expired on July 21, 1915. They failed to do so on that date, and plaintiff refused to allow them to serve the answer and file the bond a few days later, and applied for judgment upon their default. This motion to open the default was granted, upon payment of $15 costs, and from the order granting it this appeal is taken by the plaintiff.
The defendants were in default for want of an answer, and should not have been allowed to open their default, except upon papers which included a proposed answer and affidavits showing facts from which the court could determine that a meritorious defense or counterclaim existed. As neither of these was shown in the moving papers, the motion should have been denied.
The order appealed from is accordingly reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with $10 costs, with leave to renew upon proper papers. All concur.