Court Opinion

ID: 6172515
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 19:37:51.870334+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:58:21.812805
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.

The dismissal of the defendant’s first affirmative defense was error prejudicial to defendant’s case. In view of the confidential relationship of the parties, oral evidence was admissible on the question whether, at the time the note was executed, the plaintiff wife agreed to be jointly liable thereon (Matter of Faigelman, 142 Misc. 167; cf. Foreman v. Foreman, *258251 N. Y. 237); and this question was one of fact for the jury to pass upon.
The judgment should be unanimously reversed on the law and facts and a new trial ordered, with $30 costs to d ffendant to abide the event.
Concur — Pettb, Di Giovanna and Brown, JJ.
Judgment reversed, etc.