Case Name: Maltby K. Pelletreau, as Receiver, Respondent, v. The United Electric Light & Power Co., Appellant
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1894-11
Citations: 10 Misc. 769
Docket Number: 
Parties: Maltby K. Pelletreau, as Receiver, Respondent, v. The United Electric Light & Power Co., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 769–770

Head Matter:
NEW YORK COMMON PLEAS
GENERAL TERM,
NOVEMBER, 1894.
Maltby K. Pelletreau, as Receiver, Respondent, v. The United Electric Light & Power Co., Appellant.
Appeal from a judgment of'the District Court in the city of New York for the second judicial district, rendered by the justice, without a jury, in favoir of the plaintiff.
Action upon contract for work, labor and services.
Charles & Kellogg, for appellant.

Opinion:
Bischoef, J.
According to the return of the justice below the defendant pleaded the Statute of Limitations and a general denial, no specification of the Statute of Frauds being made.
Therefore, the question toward which much argument was devoted by the appellant, whether or not the contract in suit was open to objection under the latter statute, is not in the case. Crane v. Powell, 139 N. Y. 379.
The judgment is, however, successfully assailed for insufficiency of proof, it being in no way made to appear that the sum of fifty-seven dollars, the amount for which judgment was rendered, or any other sum, was agreed upon by the parties as the price of the goods in suit, and, assuming that the recovery proceeded not upon the contract, but upon the claim for work, labor and services and materials furnished, then the absence of any testimony as to their value presents a fatal defect in the evidence given to sustain that claim.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to .abide event.
G-iegebich:, J., concurs.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide event.