Case Name: Pepsi-Cola Company, Appellant, v. The Coca-Cola Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1941-02-18
Citations: 261 A.D. 928
Docket Number: Appeal No. 4
Parties: Pepsi-Cola Company, Appellant, v. The Coca-Cola Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 261
Pages: 928–928

Head Matter:
Pepsi-Cola Company, Appellant, v. The Coca-Cola Company, Respondent.
(Appeal No. 4.)

Opinion:
Order, dated September 17, 1940, denying in part the plaintiff's motion to modify the defendant's demand for a bill of particulars of the amended reply, modified by vacating items numbered 14(g), 15(e) and 15(f) in the demand. As so modified, the order, in so far as appealed from, is affirmed, without costs. We disallow the foregoing items for the reason that acquiescence, as a defense, is based on silence or inaction. (Pollits v. Wabash R. R. Co., 207 N. Y. 113, 129.) To ask for particulars of acts constituting acquiescence is to ask the plaintiff to particularize a negative. Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Close, JJ., concur.