Fearing v. Irwin

Headnote

It seems that where a case is agreed apon and submitted without action, under § 372 of the Code of Procedure, the court have no power to decide as to the existence of any of the facts admitted to exist by the case submitted, and cannot against the will of one of the parties strike out an admission of fact therein contained.

Even if such a power exists in the court, it will not be exercised where the admission has not been made under any mutual misconception or mistake, nor procured by fraud.

Motion to amend a case agreed upon and submitted in a controversy without action, by striking out an admission contained in it.

The question submitted to the court for its decision was, whether Apthorp’s lane and Bloomingdale road, in the city of New York, had been duly closed according to law, and whether the plaintiffs, as abutting owners, acquired the fee simple to the

middle of the road. By the case as agreed on, it was admitted that when the road was so closed, the plaintiffs would become such owners, and the deed under which the plaintiffs claimed was also set out. This court, at general term, held that under the deed set out in the case, the plaintiffs would not, on the closing of tlie road, become such owners; but that as such right of ownership in them was admitted, the presumption was that they claimed under other sources of title, as-well as under the deed, and that the admission was conclusive.

The court, therefore, having concluded that the road had been closed, adjudged the title to the center to be in the plaintiffs (reported in. 4 Daly, 385 ; affirmed in 55 N. Y. 486 ).

This motion was made to strike out the admission as to the ownership on the closing of the road.