Stringer v. Barker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Adelia Gertrude Stringer, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 10th day of December, 1908.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion to open certain defaults.
The action is brought to enforce a power of attorney given by *492defendant to plaintiff authorizing her to collect the sum of $2,500 per annum from the trustees of a certain estate in which defendant lias an interest. After the cause was at issue and on the day calendar, and defendant by his attorney had appeared and answered “ ready,” the defendant suffered what appears to have been a willful and premeditated default. Several weeks after this default, and after the decision and judgment had been…
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