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105 A.D. 442

Duryee v. Parker

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1905-07-01

Appeal by the plaintiff, Edward W. Duryee, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of October, 1904, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to the separate defense and counterclaim set out in the defendants’ answer, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29 th…

Decided 1905-07-01

Per Curiam :

¶1Under the settled practice the appeal from the order demurrer must be dismissed. All the questions which the appellant seeks to raise are presented by the appeal from the judgment.

¶2We think the demurrer to the separate defense set up in Y of the answer should have been sustained. That paragraph alleges in substance that in and by the agreement between the defendants and plaintiff’s assignors, the latter bound themselves te send defendants orders only from first-class firms, who would pay to defendants a commission of one per cent per bushel on the wheat sold by defendants for them, of which commission the defendants agreed to .credit plaintiff’s -assignors with three-eighths, and that *445"the first-class firms were to pay all cable expenses. There is no breach of this agreement alleged, the only allegations in this respect being “ that said first-class firms have refused to pay defendants any •of said commissions or cable expenses.” Why they refused, or what bearing their non-payment has upon the agreement alleged does not appear, and, talcing all the allegations of the paragraph together, we do not find any defense stated, and for this reason the •demurrer to it should, as already intimated, have been sustained.

¶3As to the counterclaim, we think the allegations are sufficient .and, therefore, the demurrer to it was properly overruled.

¶4It follows that the judgment appealed from should be modified by sustaining the demurrer to the separate defense, with leave, as to this defense, to answer over on payment of costs, and, as so modified, the interlocutory judgment should be affirmed, without costs -to either party upon this appeal.

¶5Present — O’Brien, P. J., Patterson, Ingraham, McLaughlin .and Laughlin, JJ.

¶6Judgment modified as directed in opinion, and as modified .affirmed, without costs.

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