Santini Bros., Inc., v. Smith

Full title: SANTINI BROS., INC., Respondent, v. HARRY SMITH, Appellant, Impleaded With…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Feb 26, 1937

250 App. Div. 53 (N.Y. App. Div. 1937)

293 N.Y.S. 765

Opinion

February 26, 1937.

Appeal from Supreme Court of Bronx County.

Louis Rosenzweig, for the appellant.

Louis B. Bruman, for the respondents.

Present — MARTIN, P.J., McAVOY, O'MALLEY, DORE and COHN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The stipulation is enforcible but its meaning is sufficiently ambiguous to require the taking of oral proof of the surrounding facts and circumstances to determine the true meaning and intention of the parties.

The order appealed from entered December 4, 1936, should be reversed and the matter remitted to an official referee to take testimony and report to the Special Term, disposition of the motion to be held in abeyance until the coming in of the referee's report. The order denying motion for resettlement should be affirmed.

PER CURIAM.

Order entered December 4, 1936, unanimously reversed and the matter remitted to an official referee to take testimony and report to the Special Term, disposition of the motion to be held in abeyance until the coming in of the referee's report. Order denying motion for resettlement unanimously affirmed.

Settle order on notice.