Case ID: ad_160/html/0917-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas W. Meredith, Respondent, v. Joseph M. Dodd, Appellant.
    Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the Hew York county clerk’s office on the 19th day of December, 1913, granting a motion to vacate an order for the examination of plaintiff before trial.
   Per Curiam:

The burden of proving his allegation of lack of consideration is on the defendant, and he has the right to examine the plaintiff to prove such affirmative defense. The order appealed from is, therefore, reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to vacate the order for plaintiff’s examination denied, with ten dollars costs; the date for the examination to be fixed in the order. Present — Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Clarke, Scott and Hotchkiss, JJ. Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion to vacate order denied, with ten dollars costs; the date for the examination to be fixed in the order. Order to be settled on notice.