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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BILL v. WOLINSKY.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    May 24, 1910.)
    Infants (§ 49)—Contracts—Liability.
    An action against an infant for work and labor is not maintainable, where he pleads and shows his infancy at the time of the rendition of the services and the commencement of the action.
    [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Infants, Cent. Dig. §§ 112,113; Dec. Dig. § 49.*]
    Page, J., dissenting.
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Sixth District.
    Action by John Bill against Phillip Wolinsky. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    Reversed, and new trial ordered.
    Argued before SEABURY, LEHMAN, and PAGE, JJ.
    Morris Meyers, for appellant.
    August P. Wagener, for respondent.
    
      
      For other cases see same-topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date. & Rep’r Indexes
    
   SEABURY, J.

By the plaintiff’s concession, made upon the trial, the cause of action was reduced to a claim against the defendant for work, labor, and services performed by the plaintiff, and the defense thereto was infancy. The uncontradicted testimony showed that the defendant was born in 1890, thus showing that when the services were rendered and when this action was commenced the defendant was less than 21 years of age.

The judgment must therefore be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

LEHMAN, J., concurs. PAGE, J., dissents.