73 N.Y.S. 783 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1901
Appeal from an interlocutory judgment, overruling a demurrer to the complaint in an action against Charles H. Turner and wife. The complaint is too long to reproduce here, or even to give a condensed statement of it; but it is sufficient to say that I analyze it as follows: It first seeks to reform the written contract of August 20, 1897, to conform to the real contract between the parties thereto, and when so reformed to compel a specific performance of the same. It further contains a statement of facts constituting several distinct causes of action upon contract, against the husband alone, upon each of which a distinct sum of money is alleged to be due and unpaid, and all of which might be joined in one complaint. Neither of such contracts has any connection whatever with the written contract of August 20th. I can find no averment which connects either with such contract. Each seems to be based upon a separate and distinct agreement of its own, creating a separate and distinct obligation against the defendant Charles H. Turner. These causes of action, however, are not separately stated or numbered; and statements of facts necessary to sustain the action for a specific performance are scattered through the whole complaint. There is no demand for a judgment that the plaintiff