Case Name: Ella R. Souler, Respondent, v. The McDowell Garment Machine Co., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1902-06
Citations: 38 Misc. 786
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ella R. Souler, Respondent, v. The McDowell Garment Machine Co., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 786–786

Head Matter:
Ella R. Souler, Respondent, v. The McDowell Garment Machine Co., Appellant.
Appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, eleventh district, borough of Manhattan.
Jones, Dodd & Steinbrinck, for appellant.
Rosalie Loew, for respondent.

Opinion:
MacLean, J.
Instead of a plain and concise statement of the facts, as required (Code Civ. Pro., § 481), the pleader has put a misrepresentation into her complaint, boldly alleging that, besides-an allowance of eight dollars and fifty cents weekly on account of' expenses and disbursements, the defendant agreed " to pay to the plaintiff the.sum of $10 each week." She has also annexed to and made a part of her complaint an inaccurate and misleading copy of the agreement. In the agreement itself, introduced by the pleader and plaintiff upon the trial, the provision.runs, "will also pay to the party of the second part ten dollars each week to be advanced on account of commissions due and to grow due to-the party of the second part," i. e., unless the parties inserted in their writing words to be disregarded as meaningless, the payments were to be made provisionally in anticipation of adjustment upon accounting, whereat they might be set off, in whole or in part or exceeded altogether, by earnings, if any, of commissions. The plaintiff failed to earn any commissions. She received advances the first two weeks. Herein she claims for all the weeks remaining to the date of the termination of the agreement and she has-recovered judgment for the full amount. This is erroneous. Whether she might have recovered for the advances from week to week, pending the existence of the agreement and have been compelled to refund upon the termination of the relations, is not material. The relation has terminated leaving the plaintiff with two weeks' advances to which she is not entitled. The judgment should be reversed.
Freedman, P. J., and Gildersleeve, J., concur.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant, to abide event.