43 N.Y.S. 800 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1897
The motion was to set aside the judgment, as void. The judgment was not void merely because the judgment roll did not contain the proper papers. The judgment roll, as distinguished from the judgment, was irregularly made up, because it did not contain all the proper papers. The correct motion, however, was to amend it by inserting the proper papers. Thus, the appellants have mistaken their remedy. The motion which they. made was properly denied, and the order appealed from should he affirmed. The defendants, it may be added, took an erroneous view of section 1221, subd. 3, Code Civ. Proc. The referee did award the proper judgment upon the whole issue. He was not required to refer in his report to the judgment already given by the court upon the issue of law. The proper report to be made by the referee upon the whole issue was simply a report for the relief demanded in the complaint. Upon that report the postea should have recited the decision on the issue of law (that is, the order of October 28, 1893), overruling the demurrer to the reply. It should then have recited the order of reference of the whole issue, and the report on the whole issue. This should have been followed by an award of judgment upon the decision on the issue of law, and of final judgment upon the whole issue as reported by the referee.
The order should be affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.