Stern v. Ladew
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph Stern, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1897, upon the report of a referee, as dismissed the complaint upon the second cause of action therein alleged.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph Stern, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1897, upon the report of a referee, as dismissed the complaint upon the second cause of action therein alleged. Appeal by the defendants, Edward R. Ladew and another, from the said judgment, except so much thereof as dismissed the complaint upon the second cause of action, and also from an order •entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of December, 1897, granting the plaintiff an extra allowance of costs. This…
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J. :
In the view which we take of this case, it is not necessary that we examine in detail the complicated state of facts which surround the dealings between the parties to the action. A brief review of the general features of the case, and of that particular part of the testimony which controls our decision, is all that is essential to a disposition of the case, under the rules of law which we deem applicable thereto.
• ■ The plaintiff was a wholesale butcher and slaughterer of cattle, had been since 1858, and during the years covering the transactions which were the subject of…
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