Reichle v. Perkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, G. W. Perkins, as president, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 12th day of January, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and "also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
De Angeles, J. :
The action was for a death benefit arising from the membership of one Louis Reichle in the Cigarmakers’ International Union of America and a local union thereof known as Local Union No. 2 at Buffalo. The defense was that since the plaintiff sued as administratrix of the estate of Louis Reichle, although she and Mrs. Eagan were his sisters and his only heirs and next of kin, she could not maintain the action even though the plaintiff, if she had been dependent upon the decedent, might have maintained an action individually for the death benefit, and that the plaintiff,…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Woodbury v. SchroederCity of New York Municipal Court · 1921
- Nagle v. PerkinsBuffalo City Court · 1927