48 Misc. 500 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1905
By an agreement in writing the plaintiff undertook to cover with metal the ceiling and sidewalls of a new hall, attached to the saloon of the defendant on Coney Island avenue, for $700, the “ terms of payment to be as follows: when the metal work is three-quarters done $250 in cash, the balance to be given in two notes, one for thirty days and one for sixty days.” Passing by the ambiguity in these terms of payment, the main controversy here is over a note of $125 given in renewal of a preceding one, also a renewal, the original whereof, the defendant claims, was without consideration, because of alleged noncompletion by the plaintiff of the work undertaken as above. Upon the question of completion or substantial completion of the work, the contradictions were sharp and the conflict direct; with preponderance, apparently, in circumstantiality and in number of witnesses, in favor of the plaintiff; particularly as impeachment, for want of consideration, of the note, valid
Scott and G-ildersleeve, JJ., concur.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.