Kelsey v. Distler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
.Appeal¡by the plaintiffs .from an interlocutory j udgment of the Supreme «Court, rendered at Special Term .and «entered in the office o'f the clerk of the county of Kings on the ,37th day of Bebruary, 1909, sustaining,a demqrrer to ¡the «complaint interposed toy the «defendants Henry Distler and William Van Inwegen, on the ground that it did not state facts «sufficient to constituí,te«a cause «of action.’ Interlocutory judgment affirmed, «with costs, on the opinion of Mr.…
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.Appeal¡by the plaintiffs .from an interlocutory j udgment of the Supreme «Court, rendered at Special Term .and «entered in the office o'f the clerk of the county of Kings on the ,37th day of Bebruary, 1909, sustaining,a demqrrer to ¡the «complaint interposed toy the «defendants Henry Distler and William Van Inwegen, on the ground that it did not state facts «sufficient to constituí,te«a cause «of action.’ Interlocutory judgment affirmed, «with costs, on the opinion of Mr. Justice Marean at Special Term. Hirschberg, P. J., Jenks, Q-aynor, ¡Rich and Miller, JJ., concurred. "The following.is…
1Opinion of the Court
Marean, J. :
The action is for specific performance «of the contract between tire plaintiffs -and defendant Hodges, ;a cause «of action distinctly «different In its identify from «their cause of .action ¡at law for damages for breach «of (the ''contract; Where it is the pleadter’is «manifest intent to set up the equitable «cause of «action, and where he demands the relief afforded only in equity — where his demand of damages «is plainly .only «an assertion of the alternative right recognizable in equity in .a proper case "where, the «defendant is unable to perform; in such a case the complaint…
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