In Paine v. Aldrich (36 N.Y. St. Repr. 999) it was held that the court must settle the judgment and direct that judgment to be entered, and that until this was done the clerk had no authority to act, and could enter no judgment.

In Paine v. Aldrich, 133 N.Y. 544, 547, the court said, in reference to the testimony of a layman, "he could state the acts and conversations of which he had personal knowledge and then be permitted to say, whether, in his judgment, such acts and conversations were those of a rational or irrational person."