Gillin v. Canary
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendant from affirmance by the City Court, General Term, of a judgment in favor of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
The plaintiff brought two actions in the City Court against the defendant, each to recover the sum of $2,000 on promissory notes. The defendant applied for and obtained an order consolidating the actions, and the trial resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $4,227.50.
The first point made by the defendant is that by section 316 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the jurisdiction of the City Court in actions like the present is limited to “ and cannot exceed two thousand dollars, exclusive of interest and costs as taxed.”
The plaintiff seeks to avoid this objection by contending that'…
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