Pratt v. Baker
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from Onondaga county court. Action by William E. Pratt, as receiver of John Schaefer, against Charles H. Baker, Edwin R. Plumb, and John 0. Whiteside. There was a judgment in favor of defendants, and plaintiff appealed. ¡Pending the appeal an order was made requiring plaintiff to correct the printed papers, and from such order plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This action was originally commenced in a justice’s court. In that court the plaintiff had judgment. From that judgment the defendants appealed to the Onondaga county court, where the judgment of the justice was reversed. The plaintiff then appealed from the judgment of the county court reversing the judgment of the justice to the general term of the supreme court. After such appeal, and while it was pending in the general term of the supreme court, the defendants obtained from one of the justices of the supreme court an order to show cause at a special term of that court why the return of…
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