202 A.D. 818 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1922
The purpose of the enactment of the law permitting summary application to the court to recover possession of real property was to dbtain speed, promptness and certainty of decisions in cases of this kind. If such had not been the purpose of the law, the action of ejectment would have been sufficient. It has never been understood that in summary proceedings motions for examination of parties before trial were permissible. Such motions, having the necessary effect of delaying the proceedings, are hostile to the very character and object of the remedy provided by the legislature. We think, therefore, that such examinations
See Civ. Prac. Act, § 1410, subds. 2, 2-a, added by Laws of 1921, chap. 199, as amd. by Laws of 1921, chap. 371. See, also, Laws of 1920, chaps. 136, 944, as amd. by Laws of 1921, chap. 434. Since amd. by Laws of 1922, chaps. 663, 664.— [Rep.