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42 Barb. 548

18 Abb.Pr. 142

Hoffnung v. Grove

New York Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1864

New York Supreme Court · decided 1864-11-15

<p>Judgment on Failure to Answer.</p> <p>Where a motion for judgment on the answer as sham and frivolous had been denied, defendant’s attorney insisting on the argument that as the plaintiff’s attorney had returned the answer, there was no answer in the cause ;—Held, that plaintiff was strictly regular in thereafter entering judgment as upon a failure to answer.</p>

Decided 1864-11-15

By the Court.*—Clerke, J.

¶1Although the attorney of the plaintiff had clearly no right to return the answers, because he deemed them frivolous, and although no attorney or counsel has the right to determine the validity or sufficiency of any pleading, yet, on the motion before Judge Barnard, the objection offered by the counsel of the defendant, and accepted by the judge, amounted to an admission that the answers were deemed by him to have been duly returned, and. to be no longer effectual as answers. I think the latter is estopped from claim-' ing, now, that they could, after the motion referred to, be effectual to prevent plaintiff’s attorney from taking the default of the defendant for rvant of answers, without prejudice to defendant’s right to apply to the favor of the court. The order should be affirmed, with $5 costs in each case.

¶2Order accordingly.

¶3 Present, Leonard, P. J., Sutherland and Clerks, JJ.

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