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1 Misc. 481

Howe v. Schweinberg

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided December 15, 1892

City of New York Municipal Court · decided 1892-12-15

<p>Plaintiffs declared upon and proved a special contract, by which the defendant’s intestate, prior to his death, agreed to pay plaintiffs a specified sum of money as a fee, if they succeeded in accomplishing certain results, which they ultimately did. The trial judge directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff. The evidence of M., plaintiff’s clerk, as to the contract, relied upon, was full, positive, clear and uncontradicted. Held, that the ruling of the trial justice was proper; that where an unimpeached witness gives testimony uncontradicted, either by witnesses or circumstances, and, moreover, natural, plausible and proper, such testimony is conclusive, must be accepted by the court, and need not be submitted to the jury.</p>

Relies on Kelly v. . Burroughs

Decided 1892-12-15

Ehrlich, Ch. J.

¶1The plaintiffs declared upon and proved a special contract, by which the intestate, prior to his death, agreed to pay the plaintiffs a specified sum of money, as a fee, if they succeeded in accomplishing certain results, which they ultimately brought about, after the expenditure of time and labor.

¶2The plaintiffs received part of the fee, and the trial judge directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for the balance.

¶3The evidence of Moss, the plaintiffs’ clerk, as to the contract, relied upon, is full, positive, clear and uncontradicted, and the witness stood unimpeached.

¶4Within the rule, therefore, that where an unimpeaehed witness gives testimony uncontradicted either by other witnesses or by circumstances, and, moreover, natural, plausible and probable, such testimony is conclusive, must be accepted by the court, and need not be submitted to the jury. Kelly v. Burroughs, 102 N. Y. 95; Lomer v. Meeker, 25 id. 361; Reizer v. Germania Ins. Co., 121 id. 692.

¶5*482There is no merit in the exceptions and no error requiring a new trial.

¶6It follows that the judgment must be affirmed, with costs.

¶7Newburger, J., concurs.

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