Coit v. Goodhart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Philip J. Goodhart and others, 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 19th day of March, 1896, granting the plaintiff’s motion to refer the issues in the action to a referee to hear and determine the same.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J. :
This suit is brought to compel the defendants Goodhart to account to plaintiff for moneys not accounted for, the complaint alleging that incorrect accounts were delivered; that plaintiff received the same believing that they were correct, and that afterwards a discovery was made that $7,350 had not been paid, and that the accounts were incorrect to that extent; that, relying on the accounts and the statement of the amount of the deficiency, plaintiff received the $7,350 and transferred his claim to the other defendants, Lehman Brothers, and at the time of the transfer “it was…
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