Court Opinion

ID: 5431673
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:55:27.695187+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:39.402409
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.

The summary statute (Civ. Prac. Act, § 1425) provides: “If the precept contain a notice that demand is made in the petition for a judgment for rent in arrears, and the precept is served at least five days before the return day thereof, the court, upon rendering a final order, may determine the amount of rent due to the petitioner and give judgment for the amount found to be due. ’ ’
There is no provision in the summary statute for third-party practice.
The provisions for third-party practice contained in section 193-a of the Civil Practice Act are applicable to actions — not to summary proceedings, as was attempted by serving summons and complaint to bring in the third party in this instance.
*623Manifestly the court below had no jurisdiction to incorporate a third-party judgment in a final order in a summary proceeding. (See Erkins v. Tucker, 62 Misc. 495.)
Although a specific' appeal from the third-party judgment incorporated in the final order was unnecessary, because of the lack of jurisdiction of the subject matter, the third-party defendant appealed from the final order and each and every part thereof.
The judgment in favor of the third-party plaintiff-respondent against the third-party defendant-appellant should be vacated, with $30 costs, and complaint dismissed, with costs, without prejudice to such other remedy as third-party plaintiff-respondent may be advised.