Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1912

Levitt v. Sliman

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 8, 1912

137 N.Y.S. 904 (New York Supplement)

Counsel

Horwitz & Wiener, of New York City (Edwin Horwitz, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant., George Ryall, of New York City, for respondents.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The action is for goods sold and delivered; the defense, the statute of frauds.

One of the plaintiffs testified that he wrote the defendant’s order for goods on a printed slip and gave the defendant a duplicate. The order, which was not signed by the defendant, but by one of the plaintiffs, was in its material parts as follows:

Chas. H. Levitt & Co., Landeo Knitting Mills.

[Trade-Mark]

Shawls, Fascinators, Sweaters, Gloves, Fancy Knit Goods, etc., 321 Church Street, New York.

No. 19

Entered When to ship

630

Terms How to ship

Salesman G 3

Sold to Thomas Sliman

At Albany, Ga.

Lot Doz. . Not subject to countermand.

Then follows a list of numbers, number of dozens of each kind of goods, and the aggregate price of each lot.

At the close of the evidence, defendant moved to dismiss. The court denied the motion. Defendant excepted.

The statute of frauds requires every contract within its terms to be signed by the party to be charged, or his agent in that behalf. Neither party can be the other’s agent to bind him by signing the memorandum. Wilson v. Lewiston Mill Co., 150 N. Y. 315, 324, 326, 44 N. E. 959, 55 Am. St. Rep. 680; chapter 571, § 85, Laws 1911. Judgment reversed, with costs, and complaint dismissed, with costs.

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