Worms v. Lake
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alvin Lake, 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 15th day of April, 1921, denying defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings consisting of the complaint and demurrer thereto, and overruling defendant’s demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiffs allege that they are copartners engaged in business under the name of Newman Bros. & Worms; that on the 4th of June, 1919, they entered into an agreement with the defendant and David Mackenzie and C. W. Hicks, a copy of which is annexed to and made a part of the complaint. The agreement recites that it was made between the defendant and Mackenzie and Hicks, as parties of the first part, and the plaintiffs and twenty other named individuals, as parties of the second part; that the parties of the first part are the owners of a certain specified oil and gas lease of…
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