Case Name: Allan Lee Smidt, Appellant, v. Leo C. Dessar, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895
Citations: 14 Misc. 638
Docket Number: 
Parties: Allan Lee Smidt, Appellant, v. Leo C. Dessar, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 638–638

Head Matter:
Allan Lee Smidt, Appellant, v. Leo C. Dessar, Respondent.
Motion for reargiiment of appeal,k or for leave to appeal to' the Court of Appeals. , '■ . ' ■ ' - . •
Wm. C.M'edcly, for motion. • ' . ‘ '
Burr & pe Lacy, opposed. . ..

Opinion:
Per (horinm.
The. General Term construed the,' contract without reference to any.evidence, than its own contents and this was: proper,.- for the-'writing' .was free ¡from- ambiguity; The plaintiff was to. have for trying- cases before 'cominissionefs, forty dollars per-,,case, / and defendant guaranteed Mm two-cases, per week,. If the plaintiff were pot .able tb' dispósé -of two trials per .week he could, not claim-a weekly - payment for two cases, for he was hot guaranteed the fee -independently -of the trial'. It appears •that although lié had. fifty'"cases: he 'was only able to finish seventeen in the/period of ten weeks covered by'the action, for which he has'been paid! / Hé Bagno
claim for cases-not tried. ' ' .
Motion denied, without costs..
. . . Present: Da-lt,. Ch.. ,L', Bischoff. and Feyoe,,JTJ, ,i ., . r Motion denied, without costs.