Katzenstein v. Amsterdam Equities, Inc.

The courts retain control over, procedural stipulations by the parties in actions and proceedings, and refuse to recognize them where they are inimical to the orderly administration of justice (Goldstein v. Goldsmith, 243 App. Div. 268). In deciding this appeal, it is not necessary to pass upon whether the courts ought to approve a stipulation dispensing with a statutory requirement that is so necessary to intelligent judicial review, and to other aspects of the administration of justice, as the making by the trial court of a statement of the facts which it deems essential to its decision,…