Case ID: ad_158/html/0915-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benjamin P. Ducas, Appellant, v. Robert Loonen, Respondent.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the Mew York county clerk’s office on the 6th day of June, 1913, dismissing the complaint at Trial Term at the close of plaintiff’s case.
   Per Curiam:

We think that the evidence adduced by the plaintiff established a prima facie case, and it was error to dismiss the complaint. The letter of the attorney for the plaintiff, written after the commencement of the action, was incompetent to destroy the cause of action, and was improperly admitted unless set up by way of supplemental pleading. The judgment should be reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event. Present —Ingraham, P. J., Laughlin, Scott, Dowling and Hotchkiss, JJ. Dowling, J., dissented. Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event. Order to be settled on notice.