Wallace v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George Wallace, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on The 21st day of September, 1901, granting the defendants’ motion for an order that the second amended complaint be made more definite and certain and for a bill of particulars.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The complaint, in a taxpayer’s action against the defendants Jones, Cox and Willetts, supervisors of Nassau county, and the defendant Eastman, treasurer of said county, contained six preliminary paragraphs of allegations descriptive of the official status of the several defendants and the time of such status. Subsequent paragraphs set up five causes of action alleging acts showing the liability of one or other defendant for acts done by him at the times therein named, either for illegal audit or payment,, without embodying any of the descriptive clauses in any of tlie first…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Arkenburgh v. WigginsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Arkenburgh v. . WigginsNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
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- Bigelow v. DrummondNew York Supreme Court · 1904
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