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62 A.D. 116

Flaherty v. Cary

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1901-07-01

Appeal by the plaintiff, Robert Flaherty, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 17th day of January,, 1901, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Hew York-Trial Term. The action was brought to recover $50,000 for an alleged breach of contract.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1948

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Decided 1901-07-01

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Hatch, J. (concurring):

¶1I concur in the result readied by Hr. Justice Laughlin in this case, upon the ground that the contract is so indefinite and' uncer*123tain as to be unenforcible. It was not averred in the complaint nor proved on the trial that the efforts of the defendant to organize the corporation, such as was contemplated, was or would have been successful, in consequence of which no cause of action was either averred or proved. It is evident that no damages can be predicated of a breach of such a contract. The whole matter is so speculative and uncertain that no enforcible right is established hy the proof.

¶2Upon the other matters discussed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Laughlin, I express no opinion.

¶3The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

¶4O’Brien and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred.

¶5Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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