Case ID: ad_195/html/0929-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clarke, P. J. (dissenting):", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Standish Chard, as Receiver in Supplementary Proceedings of Cornelius J. Sullivan, Respondent, v. Ryan-Parker Construction Company, Appellant.
    
      Contracts — when not corrupt or against public policy.
    
    Appeal from a judgment'of the Supreme Court in favor, of the plaintiff, entered in the New York county clerk’s office on the 28th day of July, 1919, on the verdict of a jury, and from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of October, 1919, denying a motion for a new trial.
    Judgment and order affirmed, with costs. No opinion.
   Present — Clarke, P. J., Laughlin, Dowling, Merrell and Greenbaum, JJ.; Clarke, P. J., and Greenbaum, dissenting.

Clarke, P. J. (dissenting):

I dissent upon the ground that the finding of the jury that the contract in suit is not illegal and against public policy is clearly against the evidence and the weight thereof. It seems clear to me that its sole purpose was to engage political aid and that it obviously tended to secret and improper resort to public officers.