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30 A.D. 304

Fitchett v. Murphy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1898-07-01

Appeal by the defendants, Thomas J. Murphy and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 5th day of February, 1898, granting the plaintiff’s motion for an inspection of the defendant company’s books.

Decided 1898-07-01

Per Curiam :

¶1The plaintiff’s petition was insufficient to authorize the granting of the order appealed from. It did not show that any right or interest of the plaintiff had been affected, injuriously or otherwise, by the acts of the defendants of which she complained. As not infrequently happens, however, the defects in the moving papers were supplied by the answering affidavits. These indicated that the plaintiff was asserting a cause of action based upon an injury to the estate of her intestate, who had been a stockholder in the appellant corporation, and, taken together with the petition, they afforded an adequate foundation for the order of inspection. If it appeared that the examination would impose great or unnecessary hardship upon the appellant, as asserted in its behalf, that fact would be a strong argument in favor of a reversal of the order (Ward v. N. Y. Life Ins. Co., 78 Hun, 363); but the statements to show that such is the case are set forth only in the brief of counsel and are not substantiated by affidavit. Under these circumstances they must be disregarded.

¶2. The order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

¶3All concurred.

¶4Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

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