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146 A.D. 620

Slaughter v. Turkel

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1911-10-20

Appeal by the defendants, Bernard Turkel and another, copartners, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 25th day of May, 1911, denying the defendants’ motion to vacate an order, for - the examination of the defendant Felstiner before trial.

Decided 1911-10-20

Clarke, J.:

¶1The complaint is framed in, equity, and the relief demanded is an accounting. This court has repeatedly held that in ah action for an accounting the only examination to which the *621plaintiff is entitled before trial is as to such facts as are material and necessary to be proved to entitle him to an interlocutory judgment. He may not have an accounting until he has first established that he is entitled to it.

¶2The order appealed from should be reversed, with ten- dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to vacate granted, with ten dollars costs.

¶3Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin,■ Laughlin and Miller, JJ., concurred.

¶4Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion to vacate granted, with ten dollars costs.

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