Lowber v. Mayor of New York
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from an order at the special term vacating a judgment against the defendant, &c. The proceedings before the special term are reported Ante 325, where the facts involved are given.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.—Clerke, J.
—I presume that it will not be disputed, even by the counsel for the plaintiff, that it belongs to the essential, inherent powers of this court, to exercise such an efficient control over every proceeding in an action pending in it, as effectually to protect every person actually interested in the result from injustice and fraud, and that it will not allow itself to be made the instrument of wrong, no less on account of its detestation of every thing conducive to wrong, than on account of that regard which it is proper it should entertain for its own character and…
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