Case Name: SEAVEY v. ANSONIA MFG. CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-06-30
Citations: 111 N.Y.S. 661
Docket Number: 
Parties: SEAVEY v. ANSONIA MFG. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 111
Pages: 661–663

Head Matter:
SEAVEY v. ANSONIA MFG. CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
June 30, 1908.)
Contracts—Actions—Issues, Proof, and Variance.
The variance between a complaint in an action on contract, which alleges that plaintiff for a specified compensation agreed to procure for 'defendant a contract with a third person, and the proof, that plaintiff used her influence to secure for defendant the contract it sought, is fatal to a recovery.
Appeal from City Court of New York.
Action by Blanche E. Seavey against the Ansonia Manufacturing Company From a judgment of the City Court of New York in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before GIEDERSLEEVE, P. J., and MacLEAN and SEA-BURY, TJ.
Harry H. Kohn, for appellant.
Frederick W. Garvan, for respondent.

Opinion:
SEABURY, J.
In her complaint the plaintiff alleges that she entered into a contract with the defendant under which she "agreed to procure for the defendant the contract to supply ejectors for the sewage system in course of construction and installation" at Morristown, N. J. The complaint also sets forth the compensation which the defendant agreed to pay for this service, and that, "pursuant to said agreement, plaintiff procured for the defendant" the contract referred to. It also alleges the amount of the contract, and the receipt by the plaintiff of $100, and demands judgment for the balance at the rate set forth in the contract. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appeals to this court.
The only proof which the plaintiff offered in support of her allegation that she "procured for the defendant" the contract referred to was that she used her influence with her employer to this end. Her own testimony was to the effect that "I was to use my influence with the engineers, my employers, Williams, Proctor & Potts." The contract which the plaintiff proved was altogether different from that which she alleged. While she offered evidence to show that she did .use her influence to secure for the defendant the contract it sought, there was no evidence that she procured this contract for the defendant. The failure of the proof to correspond with the allegations of the complaint is fatal to this judgment.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
GIEDERSLEEVE, P. J., concurs.