Case Name: Park Place Cleaners, Appellant, v. Max Essig et al., Defendants, and Al Herman et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1963-02-19
Citations: 18 A.D.2d 897
Docket Number: 
Parties: Park Place Cleaners, Appellant, v. Max Essig et al., Defendants, and Al Herman et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 897–897

Head Matter:
Park Place Cleaners, Appellant, v. Max Essig et al., Defendants, and Al Herman et al., Respondents.

Opinion:
Order, entered on July 9, 1962, denying motion to strike out second and third defenses in defendants' answer unanimously affirmed, with $20 costs and disbursements to respondents. We take the statement in Special Term's opinion that the burden of proof to establish res judicata is on the plaintiff as meaning that upon an application to strike such a defense it was plaintiff's obligation to demonstrate that the defense was sham. Concur — Botein, P. J., Breitel, Valente, Steuer and Bastow, JJ.