Case Name: Benjamin Bloom, Resp't, v. Rosa Saberski, App'lt
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1894-05-17
Citations: 59 N.Y. St. Rep. 277
Docket Number: 
Parties: Benjamin Bloom, Resp’t, v. Rosa Saberski, App’lt.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 59
Pages: 277–278

Head Matter:
Benjamin Bloom, Resp’t, v. Rosa Saberski, App’lt.
(New York Common Pleas, General Term,
Filed May 17, 1894.)
Contract—Services—Plumber.
Section 5, chap. 603 of 1893, prohibits a recovery for services rendered and materials furnished by a plumber, without compliance with its provisions.
Appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the district court in the city of New York for the fourth judicial district.
George R FoulJc, for app’lt; Louis R. Finn, for resp’t.

Opinion:
Bookstaver, P. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant for the sum of $18.50 for services rendered and material furnished by the plaintiff as a plumber. The defense was a general denial and that the plaintiff was conducting business in violation of the statute rol at ing to plumbers. In Ferdon v. Cunningham, 20 How. Pr. 154, we held that a contract for services by a public cartman who had not obtained a license as required by a city ordinance which merely affixed a penalty for keeping and using a public cait without first obtaining a license, as void, and an action for services by a cart-man not having a license could not be maintained. Chapter 602 of the Laws of 1892, by the 5th section, expressly provides that any person desiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing, in any of the cities of this state, or of employing or master plumber, shall be required to submit to an examination before such board of examiners as to his experience and qualification in such trade, business or calling, and after the 1st day of March, 1893, it shall not be lawful in any city of this state for any person to conduct such trade, business or calling unless he shall have first obtained a certificate of competency from such board of the city in which he conducts or proposes to conduct such business, and that it shall not be lawful for any plumber to engage in or carry on the trade, business or calling of an employing or master plumber in any of the cities of this state unless bis name and address should have been registered as therein provided . There is no evidence in this case that he either obtained a certificate or registered as required by this act. But respondent contends that this was not necessary as it was work which any one could do, whether a plumber or not. The answer to this is that upon the return day of the summons when the complaint was formulated, the respondent stated the cause of action in these words, " work, labor and services and materials furnished as a plumber." Thus the respondent brought himself most fully within the provisions of this chapter, and on the authority of Ferdon v. Cunningham, supra and many other cases of like character which might be cited, the judgment must be reversed with costs ; and under the circumstances we do not feel warranted in ordering a new trial.
All concur.