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9 Abb. Pr. 370

Hall v. Emmons

New York Court of Appeals

Decided October 15, 1870

New York Court of Appeals · decided 1870-10-15

Asa Hall sued John Emmons, Jr., James L. Paine, and Hanford Smith on an undertaking of bail given by them in a previous action against Paine, to procure his discharge from arrest in that action. The summons was served July 17, 1869, and the complaint August 2. Immediately thereafter, but more than twenty days after the service of summons, Emmons and Smith surrendered Paine, and then moved for a discontinuance of the action, and release of their liability as sureties.

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Decided 1870-10-15

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By the Court.—Folger, J.

¶1The Code of Procedure (§ 191), provides in one clause that bail may surrender their principal within twenty days after the commencement of the action to charge them on their undertaking. The defendants’ attorney, mistaking the *372practice, supposed that this twenty days began t'o run from the time of serving the copy of the complaint. The principal was surrendered within that time. Upon this erroneous supposition, the first motion was made, as one of right. It was denied, because thus made.

¶2The defendants’ attorney confessing his mistake in affidavits, the defendants then moved the court for the exercise of its discretion as a matter of favor, in their behalf, under the last clause of that section. As matter of favor,> the court, in the exercise of its discretion, made the order that the bail might surrender their principal in ten days.

¶3The court at general term were right in their view of the practice, but two motions for the same object cannot be made upon the same state of facts,'-where the first has been denied, without leave to renew having been given or reserved. But they erred in applying that rule to this case.

¶4The order of the general term must be reversed, with costs to the appellants.

¶5All the judges concurred.

¶6Order of the general term reversed, and that of the special term affirmed, with costs.

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