Squire v. . McDonald
New York Court of Appeals
Motion to dismiss appeals from judgments of the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Yew York, entered upon an order made February 6,1893, which affirmed, judgments in favor of plaintiff, entered upon verdicts directed by the court. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Per curiam
The judgments, from which the appeals in these cases have been taken, involve amounts less than $500, and an order was obtained from the General Term giving leave to the defendants to appeal to this court. This motion is made in behalf of the respondent to dismiss the appeals, on the ground that the order giving leave to appeal does not state any ground. Subdivision 3 of section 191 of the Code of Civil Procedure explicitly provides that an appeal cannot be taken from a judgment, if the matter in controversy is less than $500, unless the ' court helow; by an order made at the General Term…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bastable v. . City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
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