Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Robert Boyd, Respondent, v. George W. McGuire, Jr., and Others, Impleaded with Harold J. Button, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-04
Citations: 137 A.D. 937
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Robert Boyd, Respondent, v. George W. McGuire, Jr., and Others, Impleaded with Harold J. Button, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 937–937

Head Matter:
First Department,
April, 1910.
In the Matter of the Application of Robert Boyd, Respondent, v. George W. McGuire, Jr., and Others, Impleaded with Harold J. Button, Appellant.
Discovery examination of party expectant — affidavits.
Appeal from an order entered in the Hew York county clerk’s office on the 4th day of March, 1910, denying a motion to vacate an order directing the examination of Harold J. Button.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate an order to examine one H. J. Button as a party expectant to an action to be hereafter brought. The affidavit upon which the order for examination was based contains nothing to show or even to suggest that the applicant has any cause of action against the appellant. On the contrary, if any inference on the subject can be drawn from the affidavit it is that the plaintiff has no such cause of action. The authorities are unanimous that such an order cannot be sustained under such an affidavit. (Muller v. Levy, 52 Hun, 123; Matter of Anthony & Co., 42 App. Div. 66; Tenoza v. Pelham Hod Elevating Co., 50id. 581.) The order should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion to vacate granted, with ten dollars costs. Present — Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Clarke, Scott and Dow-ling, JJ. Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.