Case ID: ny-sup-ct_96/html/0613-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pm Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas J. Churchill, Appellant, v. Frederick Loeser and Others, Respondents
    Order reversed and application granted, with ten dollars costs ana disbursements.—
   Pm Curiam:

The reasons governing applications of this kind are fully stated in the opinions of the Special Term and of this General Term in Veiller v. Oppenheim (75 Hun, 22). Upon that authority, assuming the application to be made in good faith, it should have been granted. It is not seriously claimed that the papers used on the motion disclose any evidence of had faith. It is true that accounts were rendered by the defendants to plaintiff at the time the stock was taken in each year, showing the aggregate amount of profits and losses in the departments in which the plaintiff was employed, and in the profits of which, if any hadbeenmade, he would have been entitled to a percentage. These, however, only give the aggregate amount of profits and losses, without any details of how such totals were reached; ana, claiming that they are incorrect, plaintiff says that an inspection of the books will be necessary to show the incorrectness of such statements, and to enable him to frame his complaint. The suggestion that he is bound by the accounts so rendered by failing to return or object to them is met by his sworn statement that he did object when they were rendered and was promised an inspection of the books from year to year, which, however, was never accorded him. Whether the rendering of such accounts constituted an account stated between the parties should not be determined upon motion, but is a matter to be disposed of at the trial. We do not see that any great hardship can be inflicted upon the defendants by permitting the inspection, it being within their option either to deposit the books with the clerk of the court, or to submit them for inspection at their office during such hours and days as will cause them the least inconvenience. The order appealed from should be reversed and the application granted, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

Present — Van Brunt, P. J., O’Brien and Parker, JJ.