Webb v. Homer W. Hedge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Appeal by the plaintiff, Benjamin F. Webb, 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 Kings on the 24th day of February, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This appeal is from an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a discovery and inspection of the books and papers of the defendant *421under the provisions of section 803 of the Code of Civil Procedure, for the purpose of enabling the plaintiff to prepare for trial.
The complaint alleges the breach of a contract by the defendant, which provided, among other things, that one Etheridge, the plaintiff’s assignor, was to loan to defendant $5,000 for five years and that defendant was to employ Etheridge as its manager and treasurer for.a period of five years at a fixed salary, and a…
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