Case Name: RUMSEY, Respondent, v. QUEENS COUNTY TRUST CO. et al., Appellants et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1915-07-07
Citations: 154 N.Y.S. 1143
Docket Number: 
Parties: RUMSEY, Respondent, v. QUEENS COUNTY TRUST CO. et al., Appellants et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 154
Pages: 1143–1143

Head Matter:
RUMSEY, Respondent, v. QUEENS COUNTY TRUST CO. et al., Appellants et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
July 7, 1915.)
Action by Joseph B. Rumsey against the Queens County Trust Company and others, impleaded with others.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs, with leave to the appellants to plead over within 20 days, upon payment of the costs of the demurrer and of this appeal. Held:_ That the complaint states a single cause of action in tort. The several overt acts of defendants, pleaded by plaintiff, make up the means and method alleged by him to have been adopted and employed by defendants to impair and practically destroy the value of his property rights and interests in the Buffalo & Southern Railway Company in the execution of the fraudulent scheme alleged to have been adopted by defendants to accomplish that unlawful purpose.