Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. Irwin
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL, by the plaintiff, from an order made at a Special Term, denying a motion to strike out the answer as irrelevant, &c. (S. C., very briefly reported, 4 Hun, 671.)
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Brady, J.
The answer in this action contains nothing which should be stricken out as irrelevant, or which should be made more definite and certain. The paragraph containing the statement that very large discretionary powers in regard to the control and management of the affairs and property of the plaintiffs, and in regard to the expenditure and disbursment of its funds, were conferred on its president, Alden B. Stock-well, is necessary for the intelligent statement of the defence set out in the succeeding paragraph, and which is that he had abused the discretion and misapplied,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Therasson v. PetersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
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- Modica v. MartinoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925