Legal Opinion

Groetzinger v. Forest Hills Terrace Corp.

New York Supreme Court

Decided May 10, 1924PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Taylor, George H., Jr., J.

In my opinion the complaint on its face is not open to the objection that the plaintiff, an individual asserting a claim for damages for breach of contract, has not legal capacity to sue thereon. However, in the complaint, which is drawn with skill and ingenuity, and apparently to meet a situation, the pleader attempts, in so many words, to allege a cause of action for damages for breach of a contract by which, in the last analysis, the defendant, in the city of New York, employed plaintiff (and before him his predecessor in the contract) exclusively for a limited…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
  3. Riley v. ChambersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
  4. People Ex Rel. Armstrong v. Warden of City PrisonNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
  5. Bratton v. ChandlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1922

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Whiddett v. MackNevada Supreme Court · 1927
  2. Roman v. LobeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925
  3. People ex rel. Bryant v. ZimmermanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925

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