237 A.D. 855 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1932
Order affirmed, with ten doEars costs and disbursements, with leave to plaintiff to serve an amended complaint within ten days on payment of costs. It is Ekely that the complaint states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action in aEeging that the defendants, some of whom are designated as “ de facto ” officials of the city, conspired together to cause injury to the plaintiff’s property — clothing their acts by the appearance of legaUty but being prompted, as is claimed, by willful and malevolent purposes. (Amer. Bank & Trust Co. v. Federal Bank, 256 U. S. 350; Beardsley v. Kilmer, 236 N. Y. 80, and 9 Cornell Law Quarterly, 371, 379; Walsh v. Judge, 258 N. Y. 76; Tuttle v. Buck, 107 Minn. 145; Speyer v. School Dist. No. 1, 82 Colo. 534; 57 A. L. R. 203; Dishaw v. Wadleigh, 15 App. Div. 205; Verplanck v. Van Buren, 76 N. Y. 247, 259; Dean v. Kochendorfer, 237 id. 384.) The motion was made on the further ground that the plaintiff had released his cause of action (Rules Civ. Prac. rule 107, subd. 7), and'affidavits were submitted showing that the plaintiff had received fuE satisfaction from another for the same