Schwartz v. Sunlight Apartments, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from resettled order denying plaintiffs’ motion for leave to serve and file a demand for a jury trial nunc pro tune. Order reversed on the law and the facts, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the. motion granted, without costs. The facts show that there was no intention to waive a jury trial and that the failure to demand a jury trial was due to the inexperience of plaintiffs’ attorney’s assistant. Since the motion to be relieved from the inadvertence was made so soon after the mistake occurred and could not adversely affect the defendant, the relief should have been granted.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Storch v. High Grade Land Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1948
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- Denig v. SeeligAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1962
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