Case ID: ny-st-rep_16/html/1014-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Van Brunt, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PETER F. COLLIER v. TROW’S PRINTING AND BOOK-BINDING COMPANY.
    Contract—When without consideration.
    Submission upon an agreed case.
    
      John T. Fenelon, for pl'ff; Raphael J. Moses, for def’t.
   Van Brunt, P. J.

It is not necessary here to set out the facts upon which the plaintiff founds his claim.

The alleged agreements or contracts are set out in full in the submission, and they seem to be independent instruments as claimed by the plaintiff, although they bear the same date.

By the one the plaintiff gives the defendant an option; by the other the defendant gave the plaintiff an option.

Until some right was acquired by an accepted execution of each of those so-called contracts they were wholly void for want of consideration.

In the first contract it was optional with the defendant whether or not it would act thereunder, and in the second it was optional with the plaintiff, and neither party paid anything or parted with anything as a consideration for this option; the grant of the option, therefore, had no consideration to support it and, therefore, was not binding upon either party.

Nothing having been done under the instrument in question to give it life or validity, the plaintiff cannot enfoice the provisions therein contained.

This view of the case does not seem to have occurred to either counsel, but it is within the terms of the submission, as the question to be determined is said to be whether the plaintiff is now entitled to receive plates from the defendant under all the facts stated.

We conclude, for the reasons above stated, that he is not so entitled, and that the defendant is entitled to judgment, with costs.

Brady and Daniels, JJ., concur.