Court Opinion

ID: 5275736
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 21:38:56.642594+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:28:17.920390
License: Public Domain

Smith, J.:
The action is, brought by the plaintiff to recover upon several contracts made with the individual defendants Lloyd, Hynson and Briggs. The contract made was to procure subscriptions to first mortgage twenty-year gold coupon bonds of the defendant corporation. It is claimed that certain subscriptions were procured, for which the plaintiff seeks to hold the corporate defendant in the first cause of action, upon an allegation that the corporate defendant agreed to assume the obligations of the individual defendants.
The second cause of action seems to be for the procuring of a modification of the original subscription from these same subscribers, which the plaintiff alleges that he performed, and which liability the corporate defendant is alleged to have assumed.
The third cause of action is one for the fraud or wrongful acts of the individual defendants in misleading the plaintiff, thereby preventing him from securing the signatures of certain subscribers. The individual defendants had the subscribers sign through a salaried officer, after having misled the plaintiff and caused him to delay in the procurement of the said signatures.
The defendant corporation is connected with all of these causes of action upon an allegation upon information and belief, that for a valuable consideration the corporation assumed all of the obligations of the individual defendants in connection with the said matters.
In the third cause of action all the allegations are upon information and belief. There is included in this cause of action paragraph 19, contained in the second cause of action, which alleges the assumption by the corporation of all obligations of the individual defendants to the plaintiff in connection with these contracts. This would be sufficient as a complaint, but it is not sufficient upon which to base an attachment, as there is no affidavit stating the sources of the information or grounds for the belief that the *212corporate defendant assumed the obligations which are alleged against the individual defendants. No question is made by the appellant as to the first and second causes of action.
There is another appeal in this action from an order made upon the original complaint, the decision of which will be handed down herewith. (See Willson v. Lloyd, 210 App. Div. 96.) This application is made upon the amended complaint, which differs in no material respects from the original complaint. In the order handed down upon the other appeal this court has set aside the attachment as not authorized by the papers presented therefor.
The order should, therefore, be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Clarke, P. J., Dowling, McAvoy and Martin, JJ., concur.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.