Case ID: nys_87/html/0406-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SCOTT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MULLIGAN v. TOBIN.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    March 24, 1904.)
    1. Action fob Sebvices—Reasonable Value—Evidence.
    Where, in an action for services, there was no proof of any promise to pay any specified sum therefor, nor any proof of the customary charges, but the evidence showed that defendant intended to pay, and that he suggested §10 as a reasonable compensation, plaintiff was entitled to judgment for $10.
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Tenth District.
    
      Action by Joseph T. Mulligan against John J. Tobin. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
    Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and SCOTT and BLANCHARD, JJ.
    James E. McNaboe, for appellant.
    James F. Higgins, for respondent.
   SCOTT, J.

There was no proof of any promise to pay any specified sum for the services, and no proof that there is any customary charge for such services as defendant rendered. Therefore there was no evidence to justify the value which the plaintiff put upon the services. There was proof, however, that defendant intended to pay something for the services, and he himself suggested $10 as a reasonable compensation. ' For this sum, at least, the plaintiff should have had judgment.

Judgment reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.