104 N.Y.S. 164 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
It is not strange that the complaint was dismissed by the learned trial judge for not stating facts sufficient. It is filled with so much immaterial verbiage, and is so crude and unscientific, that it cannot be understood without painful scrutiny, and that should never be imposed on a trial judge. A complaint should be lean of everything except a plain and concise statement of the. facts constituting •the cause of action.
The. foregoing is -a good cause of action for fraud against all of the defendants except John Vogt. The contention that the judgment of dissolution on the ground of insolvency is res adjudicate that there' was no fraud is groundless. The question of fraud presented by the complaint was not embraced in any issue in the dissolution proceeding, or necessarily involved therein. The contention that if there be any such cause of action it belongs to the company is also groundless. The. wrong complained of is a particular wrong to the plaintiff.
The judgment should be reversed, and a new trial granted, except as to the defendant John Vogt. '
Hirsohberg, P. J., Woodward, Rich and Miller, JJ., concurred.
Judgment reversed and new trial granted as to the other defendants, costs to abide the -final award of costs.