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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harris R. Childs et al., Copartners under the Firm Name of Childs, Parr & Joseph, Respondents, v. C. E. Riley Company, Appellant.
    
      Contract — sale — action to recover for breach of contract of sale — defense of Statute of Frauds.
    
    
      Childs v. Riley Co., 203 App. Div. 895, affirmed.
    (Argued April 25, 1923;
    decided May 11, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 29, 1922, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a verdict. The action was to recover for breach of two alleged contracts for the sale of cotton sheetings. The answer was a general denial and set up as a separate defense the Statute of Frauds.
    
      Frederick N. Van Zandt and Richard H. McIntyre for appellant.
    
      James Allison Kelly and William Henry Corbitt for respondents.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Absent: Hiscock, Ch. J.