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88 N.Y.S. 984

Price v. Ryan

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1904-06-29

Action by Josephine B. Price, as executrix of Bruce Price, deceased, against Cornelius J. Ryan, to recover for services by testator in preparing plans and specifications for a building at 142 West Forty-Second street, city of New York, in which defendant set up a counterclaim for damages, alleging that the testator willfully specified in all the papers and drawings connected with the plans that the property was situated 186 feet, instead of 185 feet 6% inches, from a certain…

Decided 1904-06-29

PER CURIAM.

¶1We think that the order appealed from should be modified by requiring the defendant to serve a bill of particulars to the counterclaim contained in the . amended answer, so as to comply with the plaintiff’s demand in the following respects: (1) In what papers, other than plans and specifications, the plaintiff specified that the defendant’s property was 186 feet east of Broadway. (2) The names of the persons by whom the other surveys, plans, and specifications were made. (3) For what period of time the construction of defendant’s building was delayed. (4) The amount which the defendant lost in rents and income. (5) The names of the persons to whom *985the sum of $10,000 was paid by the defendant, and the nature, extent, and amount of the services rendered or material furnished therefor, and the names of the persons who performed such services or furnished such materials, and during what period of time such services were rendered. (6) The names of the other architects defendant was obliged to procure to make plans and specifications for said building, what work was performed by them, and what the defendant paid them for the same. (7) The names of the persons to whom the sum of three to five thousand dollars was paid by the defendant, and the nature, extent, and the amount of the services rendered or material furnished therefor, and the names of the persons who performed such services or furnished such materials, and during what period of time such services were rendered.

¶2The order appealed from should- be modified accordingly, and, as so modified, affirmed, without costs.

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