Mayer v. Friedman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William Friedman, from a judgment of the' Municipal Oourt of the city of New York in' favor of the plaintiffs, rendered on the 12th day of December, 1898. ■Section 1384 of the Consolidation Act, referred to in the opinion. is made applicable to the Municipal Court of the city of Few York by section 1369 of the Greater Few York charter (Laws of 1897,, chap. 378).
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
We are satisfied that this judgment is right on the merits and that it should be affirmed, unless the justice before whom the case was tried lost jurisdiction by reason of his failure to comply with the statutory requirements that he should render judgment within eight days from the time when the case was submitted to him for decision. (Consol. Act, chap. 410, Laws of 1882, § 1384.)
The return contains a typewritten stipulation entitled in the cause and signed by the attorneys for the.defendant, expressly providing that “ the time of the justice to decide the…
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