64 N.Y.S. 674 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1900
The action is brought to recover the -purchase price of "a certain quantity of merchandise sold by the plaintiffs, who are residents of and doing business at Dumferline, Scotland. By answer the defendant set up certain counterclaims alleging a breach of the contract on the part of the plaintiffs in selling to other persons goods of which, the defendant was to have the exclusive right of parchase, and demanded damages for such breach of contract. The plaintiffs served a reply denying all the averments contained in the answer. The additional bill of particulars requires the defendant to furnish in detail the names of the persons, firms and corporations-to whom the plaintiffs sold goods in violation of the agreement setup in the answer, the dates when such sales were made, and the place, nature, quantity, quality and dimensions in each case.
The proof was insufficient upon which to base the order. The-affidavit is made by the attorney for the plaintiffs, and it is not therein shown that he possesses any knowledge of the facts upon which the application is based. The affidavit of an attorney will
The order should, therefore, be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with ten dollars costs.
Present — Van Brunt,' P. J., Rumset, Patterson, Ingraham and Hatch, JJ.
Order reversed, with ten. dollars costs and disbursements, and. motion denied, with ten dollars costs'.