Case Name: Madeline T. Burchell, App'lt, v. James Gulgin, Resp't
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1889-01-28
Citations: 21 N.Y. St. Rep. 330
Docket Number: 
Parties: Madeline T. Burchell, App’lt, v. James Gulgin, Resp’t.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 21
Pages: 330–330

Head Matter:
Madeline T. Burchell, App’lt, v. James Gulgin, Resp’t.
(Supreme Court, General Term, First Department,
Filed January 28, 1889.)
Complaint—Sufficiency of.
A principle invoked in behalf of a plaintiff must be sustained by facto alleged in the complaint.
Jackson & Ingraham, for app’lt; Kelly & McRae, for resp’t.

Opinion:
Brady, J.
The propositions on which the plaintiff and appellant hoped to succeed upon this appeal are not sustained by the facts alleged in the complaint. The points presented in her behalf contain them doubtless, but that is not sufficient. The salient one in her favor, not stated in the complaint, is that the defendant knew the design of the deed from the executors of Margaretha Peck, that instrument containing in the recital which distinguishes it, a statement showing the intention to convey to the plaintiff's grantor the strip of land described, and which was unintentionally omitted from the former deed. The result is, that the principles invoked in her behalf, however forcible and applicable to a proper state of facts, are utterly valueless in this controversy.
The judgment must, therefore, be affirmed with costs.
Van Brunt, P. J., and Daniels, J., concur.