80 A.D. 164 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1903
The action is brought to recover for services alleged to have been rendered by the plaintiffs for the defendant “ in and about establishing the filtering system ” of the defendant in divers cities and “ in and about other business of the defendant in said cities and in other cities and places and for like services in counselling and advising it * * * and for divers journeys and other attendances in and about the business of said defendants” The answer contains a general denial of the material allegations of the complaint and sets up as a separate defense that any contract or arrangement made between any officer of the defendant and the plaintiffs was without authority, and was unlawful in that it contemplated the improper and corrupt use of money, and that any services rendered by the plaintiffs for the defendant were rendered pursuant to an unauthorized arrangement and were of an unlawful character. For a third defense and counterclaim the answer avers that the plaintiffs obtained $500 of the defendant upon the “ representation that the same was necessarily and properly to be expended in the prosecution of their endeavors to introduce the filter system of this defendant into some municipality or municipalities; that the plaintiffs have never accounted to defendant for this money or furnished any evidence that the same was used by them for or on behalf of the defendant.” The plaintiffs replied to the counterclaim, putting in issue all the allegations thereof, except that they admitted payment to them of $1,000 by the defendant which they alleged was expended
The order should be modified by providing that the order for the examination is vacated without prejudice to a renewal of the motion upon sufficient papers, and as so modified affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to respondents.
Van Brunt, P. J., O’Brien and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred; Ingraham, J., concurred in the result.
Order modified as directed in opinion, and as modified affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to respondents.