Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1945

Smith v. Wessel

Smith v. Wessel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 17, 1945
269 A.D. 1057; 58 N.Y.S.2d 752; 1945 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5251
Smith v. Wessel

Opinion of the Court

Action to recover a sum of money advanced by the plaintiff’s assignor to the defendant under circumstances involving fraud in the contracting or incurring of the liability. The order appealed from denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint and to vacate the warrant of attachment. However, it granted defendant’s motion to increase the amount of security, which was done to the extent of making it $2,000. Defendant appeals from the order insofar as it denied the vacatur of the warrant of attachment and also from that portion of the order that increased the amount of the security, on the ground that the increase was insufficient. Order, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements. No opinion. Hagarty, Acting P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Lewis, JJ., concur.

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