Donovan v. Harriman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by'the defendant, Mary W. Harriman, as executrix, etc., 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 18th'day, of April, 1910, granting the plaintiff leave to serve an amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The. action was originally brought against Edward H. Harriman • on an express contract between him and the plaintiff resting in parol, by which the plaintiff undertook, as he alleged, to abandon all connection with a project to construct and operate a certain interurban railway between the city of St. Joseph and the city or town of South St. Joseph, in the State of Missouri, and “ to use and devote his time, labor, influence and services, so far as might be necessary and proper, in co-operation with the president and other officers” of another interurban electric railway about to…
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