Slutzkin v. Gerhard & Hey, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Samuel Slutzkin and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of January, 1921, appointing a referee to report upon questions of fact arising upon a motion made by the defendant to stay plaintiffs’ prosecution of this action.
1Opinion of the Court
Greenbaum, J.:
The action is brought to recover damages for the alleged fraudulent issue of a bill of lading. The complaint consists of two causes of action arising out of the same transaction. The first is predicated upon a common-law fraud in the issuance of a bill of lading, which falsely represented that the defendant had received from the Quaker City Morocco Company eighty cases of glazed kid, to be transported by the steamship Kiafuku Maru to Moscow, Russia, and to be delivered to order or his assigns, and the second cause of action for like damages for the issuance of such bill of…
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