De Jong v. B. G. Behrman Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jacob De Jong, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of June, 1911, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, overruling the plaintiff’s demurrers to the separate defense set forth in the several amended answers of the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
Appeal from an interlocutory judgment overruling demurrers to a separate defense.
*38The action is for damages for inducing plaintiff’s employees, and especially one Suzanne Partridge, to break their contracts with plaintiff. The parties are business rivals. The complaint alleged that plaintiff had had in his employ for some years an expert superintendent named Suzanne Partridge; that on January 5, 1911, plaintiff entered into a contract with said Partridge to remain in his employ for one year from January 1,1911, to December 31,1911. That defendants knowing this fact wrongfully and…
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