Siegel v. Waldbaum

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for fraud, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered February 24, 1977, which is in favor of defendants, upon the dismissal of the complaint, at a nonjury trial. Judgment reversed, on the law, with costs, and new trial granted. This action was commenced in 1974 against a former business partner of plaintiff. In 1975, at an examination before trial conducted by the original defendant, plaintiff testified as to a 1958 conversation between himself and his partner. The original defendant died in 1976 and the present…