Connecticut National Bank v. Bayles
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John R. Bayles, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of-the county of Suffolk on the 17th day of December, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Suffolk Trial Term before the court without a jury, the cause haying been submitted upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The only question arising in this case’ is whether the summons was served within twenty years, allowed by the Statute of Limitations.
On January 27, 1876, the plaintiff recovered a judgment, in the Supreme Court of Suffolk county, the docket being made at one o’clock p. m. of that day.
On January 27, 1896, the plaintiff obtained leave of the Supreme Court to bring this action on.the judgment, and on the same day placed the summons in the hands of the sheriff for service. The summons was thereafter. duly served on the defendant John R. Bayles, who set .up the- Statute of…
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