Prager v. Beardsley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Hnlbert T. E. Beardsley, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of May, 1909, granting the plaintiff’s motion to vacate a judgment and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Action to recover damages for an alleged slander. The complaint was dismissed at the trial on the plaintiff’s failure to appear. Plaintiff failed to appear on the day fixed for trial because he was informed, according to his affidavit, by his counsel that it would not be necessary for him to do so and that an adjournment would be had owing to the sickness of counsel.
The case appeared on the call calendar March nineteenth and was set for trial on the twenty-sixth of that month. The day when the case i first appeared on the day calendar, April eighth, and was called, the…
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