Doughty v. Picott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jerusha H. Doughty, from an order of the County Court of Essex county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Essex on the 20th day of February, 1905, denying the plaintiff’s motion for the dismissal of an appeal by. the defendant from a judgment of the Justice’s Court of the town of Chesterfield, Essex county.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
Upon the trial before the justice the defendant did not appear, either at the return of the summons or at any other time. Judgment was entered by the justice upon his default. The action was to recover the purchase price of goods sold and delivered, and the judgment was for plaintiff in the sum of seventy-nine dollars debt and two dollars and seventy cents costs. From such judgment the defendant appealed to the County Court, and in the notice of appeal demanded a new trial in the appellate court. Subsequently the plaintiff moved for an order directing that the appeal so taken be…
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