Reid v. Defendorf

This is an appeal from an order made by the county court of Rockland county declaring the service of defendant’s notice *955of appeal from a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace valid and made in time. The cause was tried before the justice on February 1st, and it was stipulated that the parties should have till February 7th to file .briefs, and the justice four days thereafter to decide the cause. The justice, finding himself in poor health, decided the case on February 6th, before the receipt of the briefs of the parties; entered the judgment in his docket; and placed the docket book in…