Case Name: W. F. POWERS CO. v. R. E. GOULD CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-05-16
Citations: 104 N.Y.S. 345
Docket Number: 
Parties: W. F. POWERS CO. v. R. E. GOULD CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 104
Pages: 345–345

Head Matter:
W. F. POWERS CO. v. R. E. GOULD CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 16, 1907.)
Contracts—Action fob Breach—Pleading—Performance by Plaintiff.
A complaint on a contract, under which services performed in furnishing certain booklets were to be paid for 30 days after delivery, which failed to allege delivery, was fatally defective.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 11, Contracts, § 1668; vol. 43, Sales, § 1001.]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District.
Action by the W. F. Powers Company against the R. E. Gould Company for services performed. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and demurrer sustained.
Argued before GILDERSEEEVE, P. J., and SEABURY and BRADY, JJ.
Alexander Thain, for appellant.
Byers & Snyder, for respondent.

Opinion:
SEABURY, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the failure of the defendant to answer after the court had overruled a demurrer to the complaint upon the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The complaint alleged:
"(3) That heretofore, and on or about June 30, 1906, the plaintiff performed certain work, labor, and services in and about the furnishing twenty-seven (27) copies of a certain booklet, entitled 'The Will of a Woman,' of the value of and for which the defendant promised and agreed to pay the sum of $25, 30 days after delivery.
"(4) That no part of said sum has been paid, and defendant has refused and still refuses to pay the same, although payment thereof has been duly demanded, and the whole of said sum now remains unpaid and due and owing to the plaintiff."
It will be observed from the allegations of the complaint that the defendant's obligation to pay did not arise until "30 days after delivery." The complaint is therefore fatally defective in failing to allege delivery to the defendant. Under the contract alleged in the complaint the labor and services performed by the plaintiff would not entitle it to recover until 30 days after the books had been delivered to the defendant. •
The judgment and order is reversed, with costs, and the demurrer sustained, with costs, with leave to plaintiff to plead over within six days upon-payment of said costs. All concur.