Court Opinion

ID: 5198537
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 15:47:31.301999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:09.573632
License: Public Domain

Laughlin, J.:
The order requiring security for costs was granted upon the ground that since the commencement of the action and after issues joined therein, and after the cause was placed upon the calendar, the plaintiff was duly adjudged a bankrupt. The order vacating. the order requiring security for costs appears to have been granted upon the ground of laches. We fad to find in the record any evidence of laches. It does not appear when the plaintiff became a bankrupt or when the' defendant became aware of such bankruptcy. Surely, where the bankruptcy occurs' after issue joined, there can be no duty of active vigilance on the part of the defendant to discover it, and the defendant is not obliged to show. affirmatively on a motion of this kind diligence in discovering the bankruptcy occurring after joinder of issue, which is the basis of the motion.
It follows, therefore, that the order should be reversed, with ten *649dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with tea dollars costs.
O’Brien, P. J., Patterson, Ingraham and Clarke, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs. Order filed.