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133 A.D. 190

Scott v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1909-06-04

Appeal by the defendants, Emily I. Smith and another, copartners, from an order of the Municipal Court , of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, entered on the 22d day of March, 1909.

Decided 1909-06-04

Jenks, J.:

¶1The defendants appeal from an order of the Municipal Court that grants a new trial to the plaintiff for newly-discovered evidence. Tins appeal lies as from a judgment (Mun. Ct. Act [Laws of 19013, chap. 580], § 255), and is well taken because such a motion requires a case made and yet there was none. (Altmark v. Haimowitz, 55 Misc. Rep. 195; Harris v. Gregg, 4 App. Div. 615; Davis v. Grand Rapids Fire Ins. Co., 5 id. 36; Nichols N. Y. Pr. 2656.) This motion cannot be regarded as made on the minutes. (Harris v. Gregg, supra.)And, as is pointed out in David Case (supra), hów without a case can it be determined whether the new evidence is cumulative merely, or goes only to the impeachment of the testimony, or if offered at the trial it fairly might have changed the result thereof.

¶2• The order is reversed, with costs. .

¶3Hirschberg, P. <T., Gaynoe, Rich and Miller> JJ., concurred.

¶4Order of the Municipal Court reversed, with costs, with leave to renew the motion upon a case within twenty days.

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