Riglander v. Star Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Star Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of October, 1904, granting the plaintiff’s motion for a preference and setting the case down for trial upon a day certain during the October term, 1904.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Brunt, P. J.:
In approaching the consideration of the questions which are involved in this appeal, it is first of all necessary to determine what *102the Legislature intended by the amendments to the laws regulating preferences in civil actions which it enacted during the last session, as the legislative intention must always be sought after, and must control in the interpretation of statutes.
In determining this question we must look at the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure regarding preferences as they then stood and the interpretation that had been put upon them by the courts at the…
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