Case Name: HARTRIDGE SCHOOL v. RIORDAN
Court: New York Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-11-24
Citations: 112 N.Y.S. 1089
Docket Number: 
Parties: HARTRIDGE SCHOOL v. RIORDAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 112
Pages: 1089–1090

Head Matter:
HARTRIDGE SCHOOL v. RIORDAN.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
November 24, 1908.)
Schools and School Districts (§ 8*) — Private Schools — Pupils and" Tuition-Evidence.
•For other cases see same topic .& § number In Dec. .& Am, Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
■In an action by a school for the tuition of defendant’s daughter, evidence held insufficient to establish a contract for tuition for an entire year at a certain charge without deduction for absence or withdrawal.
[Ed. Note.—For other eases, see Schools and School Districts, Cent Dig. § 11; Dec. Dig. § 8.*]
Seabury, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Fifth' District.
Action by the Hartridge School against- James Riordan. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, it appeals.
Affirmed.
Argued before GIEDERSEEEVE, P. J., and MacEEAN and SEA-BURY, JJ.
Julian Hartridge, for appellant.
Atwater & Cruikshank, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Whether the contract between the plaintiff's assignor and the defendant, relative to the introduction of his daughter into a school kept by the former as a resident pupil for an entire year at a certain charge, and without deduction for absence or withdrawal, was concluded by and between them upon those terms, was a question of fact, determined by the trial justice in favor of the defendant, who from the testimony adduced (much under the pleadings being irrelevant) does not appear to have expressly contracted, nor does he impliedly appear to have so agreed as it was not shown that his attention was directed or called to matter pertaining thereto on an application blank of remote date, or in a catalogue of the current year. The judgment rendered for the plaintiff for the sum that was payable in advance must therefore be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed, with costs to the respondent.