Shaffer v. Vandewater & Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York, borough of Manhattan, seventh district, rendered in favor of the defendant by the court sitting without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtSearury, J.
This judgment must be reversed, because it was not rendered in accordance with the terms of the statute. The last day under the statute and stipulation of the parties upon which the court below was authorized in this case to render judgment was February 27, 1912. At five forty-five p. m. on that day, the justice before whom this cause was pending signed the judgment and left it in the clerk’s office. The judgment was.dated as having been signed by the justice on February 29, 1912. At the time the justice left the judgment in the clerk’s office on February twenty-seventh, the clerks had left…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hathaway v. . HowellNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
- Van Valis v. CharconaAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1903