Standard Mail Order Co. v. Kaufman

Clarke, J.:

The complaint alleges a conspiracy between the defendants and one of the plaintiff’s employees by means of which, through the payment of large sums of money by the defendants to said employee, plaintiff bought from the defendants more than it needed, paid higher prices than it ought and received inferior goods, whereby the defendants cheated plaintiff and paid bonuses or commissions to said employee, in order to get the business, of upwards of $6,000. It demands damages accruing to it from such action and such conspiracy. There is no affirmative defense set up in the answer. The…