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7 How. Pr. 8

Hempstead v. Hempstead

New York Supreme Court

Decided July 15, 1852

New York Supreme Court · decided 1852-07-15

<p>*• Subsequent pleading,.” in section 456 of the Code, means subsequent in the order of pleading. An amended complaint can not be called a subsequent pleading, when spoken of with reference to a previously served answer.</p> <p>An order of a justice of this court,, staying proceedings twenty days, when served with the affidavit on which it was granted, though unaccompanied by a notice of motion, can not be treated as a nullity. The proper remedy is by motion to vacate or set aside the order.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1894

2 state decisions

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Decided 1852-07-15

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Parker, Justice.

¶1It was not necessary to verify the amended complaint. “ Subsequent pleading” in section 156 of the Code, means subsequent in the order of pleading; not subsequent in time. It applies only to pleadings in answer to the pleading verified, or to those which follow in the order of pleading. The defendant ought, therefore, to have answered the amended plead*9ing; or, at least, to have notified the plaintiff’s attorney, that he wished his answer already served to stand for an answer to the amended pleading, if the same was appropriate.

¶2But the plaintiff was wrong in entering up judgment after he had been served with the order of Justice Mullett. That order stayed the proceedings twenty days, and was served with a copy of the affidavit on which it was granted. It was not, as it ought to have been, accompanied by a notice of motion. But I do not think it was therefore void and inoperative. It was irregular and would have been set aside on motion. A careful examination of the cases from which the impression has been derived that such an order is void, will not sustain the proposition (3 John. Rep. 451; Roosevelt vs. Fulton, 5 Cowen, 438; Chubbuck vs. Morrison, 6 How. Pr. R. 367). Roosevelt vs. Fulton was decided on a motion to vacate, and the question did not arise and it was unnecessary to say whether the order might have been disregarded; though in that case the party might safely have done so, for the order had not been served on him; it had been served only on the sheriff.

¶3The parties have both been in fault; and the proceedings subsequent to the service of the amended complaint must all be set aside, without costs to either party, and the defendant must have twenty days after notice of this decision and a return to him of the amended complaint in which to answer it.

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