115 N.Y.S. 1042 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1909
The first cause of action, so far as it is necessary to quote therefrom, claims the amount of $4,173.00 for commissions alleged to be due “ by reason of the fact that the defendants employed the plaintiffs as their agent at the agreed rate of one per cent, commission upon the proceeds of goods shipped to or sold hy the plaintiffs as §uch agent-, and that the said goods were so shipped to and sold hy the said plaintiffs, and that the said amount has been duly demanded, and that no part thereof has been duly paid.” It should he noted that, according to the plaintiffs’ own statement of their case, their commission is based upon “ proceeds,” which, I take it, must necessarily mean amounts realized upon the goods referred to. As there is no allegation that any amount was ever realized by the defendants from such shipments or sales, the pleading is defective and the demurrer must he. sustained. For a second cause of action the plaintiffs allege that, “ being the agents for the said defendants at the times hereinafter mentioned as in the said foregoing first cause of action alleged, and herein referred to to avoid unnecessary repetition, the defendants shipped to and sold through the plaintiffs the articles set forth in schedule ‘ B,’ hereto annexed as a part of this amended complaint, at the advance therein set forth over and above the price named hy the defendants, and that the difference between the price so named and the price at which the defendants closed the same was the sum of £1,164 16s. Id., amounting to $5,-
Demurrers sustained, with costs, with leave to plaintiffs to amend on payment of costs within twenty days after service of decision.