Baby Show Exhibition Co. v. Crowell Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Crowell Publishing Company, 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 19th day of May, 1916, denying defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, consisting of a complaint and an answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The question presented by this appeal relates to the sufficiency of the allegations of the complaint with respect to a breach of the contract therein alleged, for which damages are demanded.
The plaintiff alleges that the parties entered into an agreement, whereby, in consideration of certain specified agreements on the part of the plaintiff with respect to a “ Better Babies Contest ” to be conducted by it, the defendant agreed to secure *369the co-operation of leading physicians in conducting the same, and to turn over to such physicians “ the scientific examination or judging of…
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