Case Name: Eugene V. Solof, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1944-04-22
Citations: 181 Misc. 956
Docket Number: 
Parties: Eugene V. Solof, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 181
Pages: 956–958

Head Matter:
Eugene V. Solof, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
April 22, 1944.
Ignatius M. Wilkinson, Corporation Counsel (Daniel A. Biordan of counsel), for appellant.
Isidor Neuwirth for respondent.

Opinion:
Memorandum
Per Curiam.
Judgment unanimously reversed upon the law, and new trial granted, with costs to the defendant to abide the event.
It was error to receive in evidence in its entirety the demand for admission of facts and also the written statements of the physician and dentist. The exhibits were offered under section 322 of the Civil Practice Act as an admission of facts binding upon the defendant. The demand to admit calls for the admission of facts of a controversial nature concerning the examination and treatment of plaintiff by his own physician and dentist and the reasonable value of their services, as to the truth of which defendant had neither knowledge nor reasonable means of acquiring knowledge. Such a demand is not within the contemplation of the statute.
Concur: MacCbate, McCooet and Steinbrink, JJ.