Curran v. . Galen
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered April 14, 1894, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court at/ Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the answer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered April 14, 1894, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court at/ Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the answer. The plaintiff demands damages against the defendants for having confederated and conspired together to injure him, by taking away his means of earning a livelihood and preventing him from obtaining employment. lie sets out in his complaint that he was an engineer by trade, and that, previously to the acts mentioned, he…
1Per curiam
In the decision of the question before us we have to consider whether the agreement upon which the defendants rely in defense of this action, and to justify their part in the dismissal of the plaintiff from his employment, was one which the law will regard with favor and uphold, when compliance with its requirements is made a test of the individual’s right to be employed. If such an agreement is lawful, then it must be conceded that the defendants are entitled to set it up as a defense to the action; forasmuch as they allege that what they-did was in accordance with its terms.
In the general…
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