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145 N.Y.S. 934

Corcoran v. Miller

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1914-01-26

Action by John Corcoran against Thomas Miller. From an order granting defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for unreasonable neglect in prosecuting the action, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. Argued January term, 1914, before LEHMAN, PAGE, and BI-JUR, JJ.

Decided 1914-01-26

BIJUR, J.

¶1This case was placed upon the calendar and noticed for trial by plaintiff five years after issue joined, and long after junior issues had been tried. Defendant waited for about a year thereafter before making this motion. Plaintiff claims that defendant is barred by laches from succeeding on this motion. All, however, that can be maintained on that score is that the court should have taken defendant’s delay into consideration; and I see no reason for disturbing the judge’s exercise of his discretion under the circumstances.

¶2The order should be affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.

¶3PAGE, J., concurs.

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