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40 A.D. 557

Goss v. Hays

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1899-05-15

Appeal by the plaintiff, Edna A. Goss, from an order of the County Court of Clinton county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Clinton on the 3d day of October, 1898, granting the. defendant’s motion to dismiss an appeal taken by the plaintiff to the County Court of Clinton county from a judgment in favor of the defendant rendered by a justice of the peace.

Decided 1899-05-15

Herrick, J.:

¶1As a matter of fact the costs in the Justicels Court in this case were not paid, and their payment is necessary to perfect an appeal. (Kenney v. Livery Stable Keepers' Assn., 89 Hun, 190.)

¶2The circumstances, 'however, are -such that if" seems to me the County Court might well have permitted that to have been done, nwnc pro tnmc, under section 3049 of the Code of Civil Procedure. It has, however, declined to do so. It was a matter resting in its discretion, and there is a long line of authorities holding that we have not the right to review that exercise of discretion. (Tucker v. Pfau, 70 Hun, 59; Wright v.Chase, 77id. 90; Myers v. Riley, 36 id. 20; Thomas v. Keeler, 52 id. 318; Bantleon v. Meier, 81 id. 162; People v. Young, 92 id. 373, 377; National Wall Paper Co. v. Szerlip, 9 App. Div. 206; Judson v. O'Connell, 37 N. Y. St. Repr. 581; Sexton v. Bennett, 43 id. 85.)

¶3The only case that I have been able to find where the discretion of the County Court was overruled upon appeal is the case of Gutbrecht v. Pros. Park & C. I. R. R. Co. (28 Hun, 497).

¶4There would seem to be no alternative, therefore, but to dismiss the appeal.

¶5All concurred.

¶6Appeal dismissed, with ten dollars costs and disoursements.

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