Case Name: J. Edmund Stanley and Joseph Butcher, Respondents, v. John W. Block and Wesley S. Block, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1900
Citations: 56 A.D. 549
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. Edmund Stanley and Joseph Butcher, Respondents, v. John W. Block and Wesley S. Block, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 549–550

Head Matter:
J. Edmund Stanley and Joseph Butcher, Respondents, v. John W. Block and Wesley S. Block, Appellants.
Action on a note given pursuant to a contract — a Mil of particular’s stating wherein the plaintiff failed to perform the contract, will not be required.
When the complaint in an action to recover the amount of a promissory note, madq and indorsed by the defendants to the plaintiffs, “ pursuant to the terms ■ of a contract, bearing even date herewith, between the parties hereto and Joseph Butcher and J. Edmund Stanley, and is subject to all the covenants and conditions therein contained,” alleges performance of all the conditions of the contract to be performed by the plaintiffs, and the defendants interpose a general denial, and allege that “ the plaintiffs have failed to perform the conditions of the contract annexed to the said complaint,” the plaintiffs are not entitled to a “ verified bill of particulars showing fully and in detail the manners, parts, particulars and items in which defendants claim the plaintiffs, or either of them, have failed to perform the conditions of the contract.”
Appeal by the defendants, John W. Block and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 3d day of November, 1900, granting the plaintiffs’ motion for a verified bill of particulars of the details and particulars in which the defendants claim plaintiffs have failed to perform the conditions of a contract.
- Mowcvrd F. White, for the appellants.
Hugo Hirsh, for the respondents.

Opinion:
Woodward, J. :
This action is brought to recover $1,500, the amount of a promissory note made and indorsed by the "defendants to the plaintiffs. The note was made and " given pursuant to the terms of a contract, bearing "even date herewith, between the parties hereto and Joseph Butcher and J. Edmund Stanley, and is subject to all the covenants and conditions .therein contained." The complaint alleges performance of all the conditions of the contract to be performed by the plaintiffs. The defendants make a general denial, and allege that " the plaintiffs have failed to perform the conditions of the contract annexed to the said complaint," etc. The plaintiffs, moved for a " verified bill of particulars showing fully and in detail the manners, parts, particulars and items in which defendants claim the plaintiffs, or either of them, have .failed to perform the conditions of the contract," and from the order granting such motion appeal comes to this court.
We are of opinion that the matter as thus presented comes within the decision rendered in the case of Goddard v. Pardee Medicine Co. (52 Hun, 85), and that the order was improperly granted. (See Bennett v. Wardell, 43 Hun, 452; King v. Ross, 21 App. Div. 475 ; Strebell v. Furber Co., 2 Misc. Rep. 450, and authorities there cited; Bainbridge v. Friedlander, 7 id. 227.)
The order appealed from should be reversed, with costs.
All concurred.
Order 'reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.