129 N.Y.S. 137 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1911
Plaintiff sues as assignee of an alleged claim of Coleman and Krause against the defendant. The complaint alleges that Coleman and Krause entered into a contract with defendant, agreeing to perform certain work and furnish certain materials; that defendant broke said contract and ¡Coleman and Krause suffered damages; that they assigned their claim to plaintiff.
This action was commenced by the service of a summons and complaint in August, 1909. The supplemental answer sets up that a judgment was entered March 28, 1910, in an action commenced in September, 1909, in which defendant was plaintiff and Coleman and Krause were defendants; that the question of the breach of the contract set up in this suit was adjudicated in that suit and that the defendant in that
Plaintiff is not concluded by the judgment pleaded and the judgment appealed from is affirmed, with costs.
Seabury and Lehman, JJ., concur.
Judgment affirmed.