Case Name: Lily Hofstetter, an Infant, by Harry Hofstetter, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. Samuel Goldenberg, Appellant, and A. & A. Amusement Corporation, Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1928-06-26
Citations: 132 Misc. 772
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lily Hofstetter, an Infant, by Harry Hofstetter, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. Samuel Goldenberg, Appellant, and A. & A. Amusement Corporation, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 772–773

Head Matter:
Lily Hofstetter, an Infant, by Harry Hofstetter, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. Samuel Goldenberg, Appellant, and A. & A. Amusement Corporation, Defendant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
June 26, 1928.
Matthew M. Levy, for the appellant.
Henry O. Kahan, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Among a number of prejudicial errors duly excepted to by appellant's counsel committed upon the trial are the following, namely: (1) The admission in evidence without proper authentication of the so-called minutes taken in an action between these parties in the Municipal Court; (2) the allowance upon the trial of an inadequately stated amendment to the complaint after plaintiff's case was almost concluded, ostensibly on the ground that such amendment would conform the complaint to the proof, whereas it controverted all adduced evidence; (3) the holding as a matter of law on insufficient evidence that the judgment between these parties in the Municipal Court was res adjudicata that defendant, appellant, was a principal and bound as such on the contract referred to in the complaint, and (4) the holding as matter of law that in the making of such contract the defendant, appellant, acted as principal and not exclusively as the duly, authorized agent of the A. & A. Amusement Corporation. For these errors and others the judgment is reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
Levy and Crain, JJ., concur; Bijur, J., concurs in result.