Gatti Paper Stock Corp. v. Erie Railroad

The action was commenced on January 3, 1933 (two years and five months after the cause of action accrued). The amended complaint alleges that both plaintiff and defendant are domestic corporations and that certain premises occupied by the plaintiff at Hoboken, N. J., together with merchandise therein which belonged to the plaintiff, were destroyed on August 6, 1930, by fire negligently communicated from a locomotive of the defendant, to the plaintiff’s damage in the sum of $85,000.

The alleged second cause of action repeats the allegations of each of the paragraphs of the alleged first cause…