Case Name: JOHNSON v. FRIEDHOFF
Court: New York City Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1893-05-09
Citations: 23 N.Y.S. 665
Docket Number: 
Parties: JOHNSON v. FRIEDHOFF.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 23
Pages: 665–665

Head Matter:
JOHNSON v. FRIEDHOFF.
(City Court of New York,
General Term.
May 9, 1893.)
Sale at Auction—Failure of Consideration—Liability of Purchaser.
Damages for failure of a purchaser, at public auction, of the lease and good will of an hotel, to complete the purchase, cannot be recovered where there was no good will, and therefore a failure of consideration.
Appeal from trial term.
Action by Christopher A. Johnson, as administrator of Christopher Johnson, deceased, against John P. Friedhoff, for defendant’s failure to complete a purchase of property sold to him by intestate at public aution. From a judgment dismissing the complaint, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Argued before FITZSIMONS and NEWBURGER, JJ.
D. Frank Lloyd, for appellant.
Rabe & Keller, for respondent.

Opinion:
FITZSIMONS, J.
The trial justice dismissed the complaint upon the ground that the plaintiff's testator agreed to sell the lease and good will of the hotel in question. The hotel having no ' good will, there was a failure of consideration, and therefore no cause of action herein. His ruling was right, and judgment must be affirmed, with costs.