Court Opinion

ID: 5699460
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 15:38:26.332907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:40:18.092872
License: Public Domain

Judgment unanimously reversed upon the law and upon the facts, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. The judgment entered herein upon a dismissal of the complaint at the close of the plaintiff’s case must be reversed and a new trial ordered. While it may be that if the allegations contained in the affirmative defenses are established that a judgment for the defendant would necessarily follow, we cannot make that assumption in the absence of such proof. Upon the record before us, there was sufficient proof to require *1020a denial of the motion to dismiss. Concur—Botein, J. P., Rabin, Frank, Valente and McNally, JJ.