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22 N.Y.S. 646

Clark v. Clark

New York Supreme Court

Decided March 17, 1893

New York Supreme Court · decided 1893-03-17

Action by Martha E. Clark against Frederick K. Clark to set aside a certain conveyance from plaintiff to defendant, and to enjoin defendant from asserting rights under such conveyance. Judgment for plaintiff. From orders denying motions to vacate the judgment, to resettle prior orders, and to change the date in the caption of the decree, defendant appeals.

Affirmed · Decided 1893-03-17

VAN BRUNT, P. J.

¶1It is claimed that the judgment entered herein exceeds the prayer and allegations of the complaint. Am inspection of the complaint, however, shows that this claim is entirely unfounded, and that all the relief granted in the decree was prayed for. It is further urged that this action was brought to quiet title, and that certain allegations necessary to such an action were not contained in the complaint in question. It may be doubtful whether any such question can be raised upon this appeal. If the allegations in the complaint were insufficient, it was the duty of the defendant to demur to the same. But the action is not founded upon any such theory. It was a bill to have adjudged null and void certain instruments which had been given by the plaintiff to the defendant, and to enjoin him from attempting to assert rights by reason of such instruments, and that is all that was adjudicated. The order appealed from denying the motion to strike out portions of the decree should be affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.

¶2The appeal from the order denying the motion to resettle said order is also equally without merit. The question as to the right of the appellant to have the date of the decree changed to the time when it was made, filed, and entered does not possess any greater merit, as the decree was dated upon the day upon which the court directed the judgment to be entered. This order, therefore, should also be affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements. AH concur.

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