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134 A.D. 869

Edinger v. McAvoy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1909-11-17

Separate appeals by the plaintiff, Charles P. Edinger, and the defendant, Thomas McAvoy, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant Ellen McAvoy, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 3d day of April, 1907, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Onondaga Special Term, the plaintiff appealing from the whole of said judgment and the defendant Thomas McAvoy from certain parts thereof.

Decided 1909-11-17

Robson, J.:

¶1The record before us on this appeal contains proposed findings of fact and of law, submitted by the attorney for defendant Thomas McAvoy, and separate and distinct proposed findings of fact and law, submitted by the attorney for the other defendant. These proposed findings were evidently presented to the court pursuant to section 1023 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Instead of noting in the margin of these statements the manner in which each proposition was disposed of, as the section referred to requires, the court *870signed the two statements of findings proposed at the end of each. The record presents no other decision signed by the court.

¶2No reference is made in either statement to the other; and, if we were permitted to consider either as a decision of the trial court, there is nothing in the papers themselves to indicate which one is to be regarded as the decision and which as the court’s disposition of proposed findings.

¶3We think the two separate sets of proposed findings, signed by the trial judge, do not make nor can they be treated as' making the decision by the trial court required by section 1022 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

¶4The requisite decision not having been made the judgment entered was premature. (People ex rel. Havron v. Dalton, 77 App. Div. 499.)

¶5No application having been made by any party to set aside the judgment for the reason that no sufficient decision had been made, or on the ground of irregularity of the decision of the trial court, no costs of this appeal are awarded to any party. (Shaffer v. Martin, 20 App. Div. 304.)

¶6All concurred.

¶7Judgment reversed and case remitted to the trial judge for decision to be made nunc pro tune, without costs of this appeal to either party.

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