184 A.D. 709 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1918
The complaint alleges that “ on or about September 27, 1917, plaintiff and defendant duly entered into a contract whereby plaintiff agreed to sell and deliver to the defendant, at Buffalo, N. Y., and defendant agreed to purchase of the plaintiff, 100,000 feet of six-quarter, tough, straight-grained white ash lumber, 12 feet to 16 feet long, to be acceptable to defendant’s inspector and shipped by him,. and for which the defendant promised and agreed to pay plaintiff the sum of $150 per thousand feet, sight draft attached to bill of lading, less 2% discount.” It further alleges that plaintiff entered upon the performance of said contract, and that on or about the 16th day of November, 1917, before any deliveries had been made on account of said contract, and while labor and expense of material amount were necessary on the part of the plaintiff to enable him to fulfill his obligations under said contract, the defendant canceled and repudiated said contract and notified the plaintiff to proceed no further therewith; that defendant’s cancellation and repudiation of said contract was made wrongfully and without any lawful excuse therefor; that the plaintiff did'nothing further toward carrying out the said contract on his part after receiving said notice of the defendant’s countermand of said order, and repudiation of said contract on its part, and that by reason of the premises and because of the defendant’s said breach of contract the plaintiff has sustained damages directly and naturally resulting in the ordinary course of events from said breach in the sum of $7,500, no part of which has been paid.
The answer is in effect a general denial of the material allegations of the complaint, but in moving the court for a bill of particulars the defendant set up some matters which it is claimed make the damages claimed of a special nature, and then insists that the plaintiff is called upon to furnish
The order appealed from should be affirmed, with costs.
Order unanimously affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.