Case ID: misc_13/html/0066-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bookstaver, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Michael Goodman, Respondent, v. Abele Riccadonna, Appellant.
    (New York Common Pleas—General Term,
    June, 1895.)
    The determination of a justice of a District Court upon conflicting evidence is not the subject of review by the Court of Common Pleas, unless it appears that he was influenced by prejudice, passion or partiality.
    Appeal from a judgment for plaintiff, rendered in the District Court in the city of New York for the seventh judicial district.
    Action for goods sold and delivered.
    
      Friend c& House, for appellant.
    
      Arthur Rothschild, for respondent.
   Bookstaver, J.

At the close of the testimony defendant moved for judgment on the ground that no authority had been shown in the defendant’s chef to receive the goods, and duly excepted to the denial of the motion. 1 This is the only exception in the record. The evidence upon this point as well as upon every material fact at issue is conflicting.

Plaintiff testified that the defendant had dealt with him for about twelve years. That he ordered the goods in question, which were delivered and at his request taken upstairs to the head cook or chef, who receipted for them.

When asked upon his .direct examination whether he received the goods, defendant said, “I do not know,” and afterwards said he did not receive them.

Plaintiff’s testimony was corroborated by the evidence given by his employee who delivered a part of the goods ; defendant’s, by his wife.

The determination of a justice of a District Court, upon conflicting evidence, is not the subject of review by this court, unless it appears that he was influenced by prejudice, passion ■or partiality. Prince v. Feller, 10 Misc. Rep. 422.

This judgment must, therefore, be" affirmed, with costs.

Bisohoff and Pbyob, JJ., concur.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.