Legal Opinion

Stratton v. Spaeth

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided October 20, 1911Published

Appeal by the plaintiff, E. Platt Stratton, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of -the city of New York, borough of Queens, in favor of the defendant, rendered on the 21st day of March, 1911. .

1Opinion of the Court

Carr, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Municipal Court in the borough of Queens in favor of the defendant on a counterclaim. The' plaintiff brought an action to recover the sum of $150 on an assigned claim. The complaint was oral. The defendant pleadéd orally a general denial and set up a counterclaim for $91.23. Thereafter both parties filed written bills of particulars. The defendant’s counterclaim against the' plaintiff, personally was in the sum of $91.23, as before stated, and on the trial the plaintiff admitted it; hence, . if the plaintiff’s cause of action was sustained, he…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Mathes v. . McCarthyNew York Court of Appeals · 1909

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