73 N.Y.S. 346 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1901
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is in the business of decorating and supplying houses with interior furnishings, and has been so engaged for the past twenty-five years; that prior to January 1, 1900, he was employed by the defendant and one Ellis G. Potter, for whom he estimated on and secured contracts; that he had a number of personal customers, whose business he secured for his employers; that one of plaintiff’s personal customers, named Jennings, commissioned defendant to buy a gilt cabinet in Europe for said customer; that defendant sent Jennings a domestic cabinet instead of an imported one; that when Jennings called on defendant to account for supplying a domestic cabinet instead of an imported one, defendant said to Jennings: “Mr. Yerbeck (meaning the plaintiff) said to our bookkeeper that, as there was a domestic cabinet in the store at that time (meaning the time the cabinet was shipped to said Jennings), and the one Mr. Duryea had purchased for Mr. Jennings had not yet arrived, it made no difference to the firm (meaning the said firm of Duryea & Potter) who got the cabinet, and to send Mr. Jennings the domestic cabinet and send the imported cabinet to Mr. Bellamy (meaning a Mr. Bellamy, whom the defendant claims was a customer of his firm); further, that Mr. Yerbeck (meaning the plaintiff) would make everything all right with Mr. Jennings (meaning that plaintiff would use his influence with said Jennings to deceive him and to prevent any trouble), as he carried him around in his vest pocket.” Upon the above allegations two causes of action are contained in the complaint; but in the second cause of action the plaintiff’s statement as to
Demurrer sustained, with costs.