37 N.Y.S. 67 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1896
Upon the 7th of April, 1893, the defendant was appointed temporary receiver of the property of the F. J. Kaldenberg Company. He was not directed by the court to sell the property, and his authority was limited to that conferred by sections 1788 and 1789 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The plaintiff claims that he was employed by the defendant as a truckman, and that the defendant, though an agent, agreed to pay him twenty-eight dollars per week. He also claims a small sum upon a quantum meruit.
The defendant was not authorized as receiver to make the contract sued upon, and the plaintiff’s complaint should have been dismissed. If Mr. Lexow was liable at all, it was individually. The case is directly within the rule laid down in Sayles v. Jourdan, (19 N. Y. St. Repr. 349) and Rogers v. Wendell (54 Hun, 540). These
The same rule applies to the quantum meruit count. The employment, if made, as it was not authorized officially, was necessarily personal.
The judgment should be reversed and a new trial ordered, costs to the appellant to abide the event.
Van Brunt, P. J., Williams, Patterson and O’Brien, JJ., concurred.
Jndgment reversed and new trial ordered, costs to appellant to abide event.