83 N.Y.S. 358 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1903
The action was brought to set aside a transfer of a bank account by the bankrupt to his wife, and to have the money on deposit in her name declared to be the property of the bankrupt. Personal service of the summons was made upon the respondents on the 21st day of March, Í903. On the twenty-sixth day of the same month the bank, which was also a party defendant, obtained an order to show cause. returnable on the first day of April thereafter, for an order permitting it to pay into court the amount of the deposit, less its costs, and for a discontinuance' of the action as against it. On the return day Messrs. Knabe and Butler, by George William Hart, appeared for the respondents. The motion was held until the thirteenth of April, when the respondents appeared in the same manner in opposition, presenting an affidavit of the respondent, John Schildknecht. On the seventeenth day of April the motion was granted, ■but the order was not entered until the twenty-sixth day of May, and it recited , that respondents appeared in opposition by said Knabe and Butler, their attorneys: On the twenty-seventh day of May the respondents obtained an order to show cause why .the plaintiff should not be compelled to serve a copy of the complaint upon Messrs. Knabe and Butler, their attorneys, and why they should not have leave to answer, demur or otherwise move in the .premises. The affidavit upon which the order was granted showed a verbal demand upon the. plaintiff’s attorneys for a copy of the complaint on the twenty-sixth day of May, which was denied upon the ground that respondents were in default. The attorney for the plaintiff presented an affidavit in opposition to the motion, denying that such demand had been made upon him. The respondents have neither served á notice of appearance nor answered nor demurred, and, therefore, have not appeared in the manner "prescribed by
It follows, therefore, that the order, should be reversed, with teii dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with ten dollars costs. ■
Van Brunt, P. J., Patterson, Ingraham and Hatoh, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.