252 A.D. 803 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1937
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Columbia county, denying the motion of the defendants to vacate and set aside judgments entered by default against them and in favor of the plaintiffs. The venue was laid in Columbia county, the office of plaintiffs’ attorney being in the
“ Re: Gusano — vs. — • Mitterloff
“ Dear Sir: I received your letter advising me that the above action has been placed on the day calendar for trial.
“ I would appreciate it if you could send me a telegram collect, the day before this action will be actually reached for trial.
“ Thanking you for your many past courtesies, and trusting that I am able to reciprocate, I am
“ Very truly yours,
HG/HH “ HAROLD GREEN.”
On May eighteenth a default was taken without further notice to defendants’ attorney. The affidavit of defendants’ attorney contains an affidavit of merits.
I favor a reversal. Heffernan, J., dissents for the reasons stated by Presiding Justice Hill, and on the further ground that the direction of the trial judge to take a default was under the circumstances arbitrary.
Harrington & Company, Inc., Appellant, v. Christiance-Dudley Pharmacy, Inc., Respondent; John P. Oleary and Another, Copartners, Doing Business under the Name of “ Cleary and Stewart,” and George Atsedes, Doing Business under the Assumed Name of “ College Spa,” Defendants.— Appeal from an order of the Special Term, Tompkins county, dismissing a motion to strike out allegations in the answer. The motion was made returnable April 21, 1937, but contained no place at which the term was to be held. A term that was assigned to be held in the district on the day named was not held, because the justice assigned had become a justice of the Appellate Division. An order was made transferring the motion to another Special Term, upon the affidavit of plaintiff’s attorney which failed to state the defect in the notice of motion. The Special Term to which the proceeding was transferred dismissed the motion on the