Case Name: ACKMAN v. THIRD AVE. R. CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1900-11-23
Citations: 66 N.Y.S. 1047
Docket Number: 
Parties: ACKMAN v. THIRD AVE. R. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 66
Pages: 1047–1047

Head Matter:
ACKMAN v. THIRD AVE. R. CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
November 23, 1900.)
Complaint—Amendment—Affidavit.
Affidavit on motion to amend the complaint by alleging diseases which plaintiff’s injury caused him to suffer should be made by plaintiff, not by his attorney.
Appeal from special term, New York county.
Action by Morris Ackman against the Third Avenue Railroad Company for personal injuries. From an order granting a motion, founded on affidavit of plaintiff’s attorney, to amend an amended complaint by alleging that plaintiff’s injury caused him to suffer from certain diseases, defendant appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before VAN BRUNT, P. J., and RUMSEY, HcLAUGH-LIN, PATTERSON, and O’BRIEN, JJ.
Herbert R. Limburger, for appellant.
Abraham Nelson, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This case cannot be distinguished from that of Rhodes v. Lewin, 33 App. Div. 369, 54 N. Y. Supp. 106; and an application of the principles laid down in that case requires us to reverse the order, with §10 costs and disbursements, and to deny the motion, with $10 costs.