N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1531: Effect of judgment

§ 1531. Effect of judgment. 1. A final judgment in favor of either

party, in an action brought as prescribed in this article, is

conclusive, as to the title established in the action, against the other

party, known or unknown, including an infant or a person with a mental

disability, and also against every person claiming from, through or

under that party, by title accruing after the filing of the judgment

roll, or of the notice of the pendency of the action, as prescribed by

law; also against each person not in being or ascertained at the

commencement of the action, who by any contingency contained in a devise

or grant or otherwise, could afterward become entitled to a beneficial

estate or interest in the property involved, provided that every person

in being who would have been entitled to such estate or interest if such

event had happened immediately before the commencement of the action is

a party thereto, or that a guardian ad litem is appointed, as prescribed

by section 1513 of this article.

2. A new trial of said action after judgment shall not be granted as a

matter of right, but the court may, in its discretion in the interest of

justice, grant a new trial upon an application made by any party within

one year after said judgment. Upon any new trial of an action brought as

prescribed in this article, the record of the evidence given upon the

previous trial may be again offered to the court by either party, and

may be received in evidence, in case the same evidence cannot be again

procured. The courts may make such rules and orders as to preserving the

record of the evidence given in such actions and perpetuating the proofs

produced therein, either with or without the awarding of any other

relief to the party whose proofs are so perpetuated, as shall be

necessary or proper, and may embrace such directions in the judgment.