Niagara Fire Insurance v. Campbell Stores
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Niagara Fire Insurance Company •of the City of New .York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the •county of New York on the 28th day of March, 1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
Upon the trial, at the end of the plaintiff’s case, the defendant moved to dismiss the complaint. This motion was denied. The •defendant then entered upon its case and introduced its evidence, •and when the defendant rested, there being no testimony in rebuttal, the defendant again moved to dismiss the complaint; which motion was granted.
We have several times called attention to the impropriety of •such a motion after the evidence of both parties has been taken. A dismissal of a complaint in an action at law, under our practice, is equivalent to a nonsuit, which in effect is a…
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