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33 A.D. 350

Lesster v. Mayor

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

Appeal by the defendant, The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the ,18th day of March, 1898, upon the •verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.

Decided 1898-07-01

McLaughlin, J. (dissenting):

¶1I dissent. Under the evidence two questions of fact were presented which should have been submitted to the jury: (1) Whether the money in question was voluntarily paid by plaintiff to defendant. (2) If not, whether it was paid, as claimed by plaintiff, under a mutual mistake of fact. The learned justice refused to submit either 'of these questions to the jury and the defendant excepted. The exception was well taken and calls for a reversal of the judgment.

¶2Van Brunt, P. J., concurred.

¶3Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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