Palansky v. Reich

This writ of certiorari brings up for review an order of the District Court of the Third Judicial District of the county of Bergen vacating a judgment previously entered by default in favor of the plaintiff. The ground of the order was that the state of demand set out no cause of action of which the court had jurisdiction.

1. The first point is that the court had no power to make the order more than thirty days after the judgment was entered because section 17 of the act limits the power to grant a new trial to that period unless upon the ground of newly discovered evidence. The court did not…