Legal Opinion

Brady v. Cassidy

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided June 4, 1894PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from trial term. Action by Harriet A. Brady, as executrix, and James Winterbottom, executor, of Alfred Brady, deceased, against Patrick Cassidy and I. Richard Adler. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiffs, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtBookstaver, J.

The first trial of this action resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, and the judgment entered thereon, was affirmed by the general term of this court, but reversed in the-court of appeals. Brady v. Cassidy, 104 N. Y. 147,10 N. E. 131. On. such reversal the court of appeals held that, on the facts then presented, the contract, the basis of this action, was plain and unambiguous in its language, and was susceptible of but one construction;-, that it stated the subject of the sale- was the entire manufactured stock in good condition, consisting of pipes, fittings, and zincs, etc.,…

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