Case Name: Isaac Barasch, Respondent, v. Joseph Riemer et al, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-06
Citations: 59 Misc. 453
Docket Number: 
Parties: Isaac Barasch, Respondent, v. Joseph Riemer et al, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 453–454

Head Matter:
Isaac Barasch, Respondent, v. Joseph Riemer et al, Appellants.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
June, 1908.)
Associations — Membership — Liability of members for debts — Debts of association only; Actions against members — Evidence — Sufficiency.
■Where, after the return unsatisfied of an execution issued upon e. judgment against the president of an unincorporated association, the judgment creditor brings an action against the individual members, he must allege and prove, not only the original judgment and the issuance and return of the execution unsatisfied, but also facts sufficient to make out the original cause of action against the association.
Where the first action was brought upon a writing signed by the president of the association as an individual and bearing the seal of the association, the plaintiff, in the second action, must prove that the signature to the writing was authorized by the association in order to bind it.
Appeal by the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of Mew York, fourth district, borough of Manhattan.
S. C. Sugarman, for appellants.
Louis Levene, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam,.
Plaintiff brought an action upon a judgment obtained against an unincorporated association in which defendants were members. The judgment was obtained in an action brought against the president of the. association. Subsequently, after the return of execution unsatisfied, this present action was brought against four of the members of the said society none of whom were parties to the previous action. The action was brought on a writing signed by the president of the society as follows:
"New York, June 5th 1905.
" Erste Foltichener Roum. Am. Kupp. Pay to the Order of Isaac Barasch One Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($115) out of our Treasury.
"(Sgd) Abraham Donner."
The instrument bore the seal of the society.
The plaintiff did not prove that Donner was authorized to sign this instrument and bind the, society. The plaintiff was sufficiently apprised at the. trial that the defendant raised this question.
Where an action is brought against the individual members of an unincorporated association, plaintiff must allege and prove, besides the original judgment and the issuance and the return of execution unsatisfied, such facts as are sufficient to make out the original cause of' action against the association. Allen v. Clark, 65 Barb. 563; Witherhead v. Allen, 3 Keyes, 562; Peckner v. Webb, 35 Mise. Bep, 291.
Present: Gildersleeve, Dayton and Gerard, JJ.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide event.