Hagmayer v. Novelty Stamp Co.

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

Hagmayer v. Novelty Stamp Co.

151 N.Y.S. 1004

CourtAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

DecidedMarch 4, 1915

StatusPublished

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Hagmayer v. Novelty Stamp Co., 151 N.Y.S. 1004 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1915).

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GUY, J.

By the judgment appealed from the defendant corporation is charged as lessee for three months’ rent of a store. The lease put in evidence by the plaintiff was dated October 31, 1913. It is for the term of 17% months, expiring May 1, 1915. Opposite each of the two red seals or wafers at the end of the instrument appears the signature, “Novelty Stamp Company” — a line being drawn through “Mercantile Novelty Co.,” opposite the upper seal. Below the bottom signature is “Chas. Singer, Pres.,” and it is witnessed by Alex. Schwartz. There is no corporate seal on the paper, nor is its execution proved or acknowledged.

The testimony offered on behalf of the plaintiff showed that the defendant was not organized at the time of the execution of the lease; that it was not incorporated until January or February, 1914; that Marcus Koenig was the president of the defendant from its organization ; that Singer, whose name was signed at the end of the lease as president, was never the president of the defendant, but that he was its advertising manager; that the defendant bought the lease of the Mercantile Novelty Company, and occupied the store during April and May and part of June, 1914, and paid 2 months’ rent; and that the defendant abandoned possession some time in June, 1914. "

[1, 2] As the burden was on the plaintiff of proving the execution of the lease by the defendant, and as the evidence failed to show that Singer was the president of the corporation at the time the lease was made, or had any authority to execute the instrument, and, indeed, showed affirmatively that the corporation was not in existence until several months after the date of the lease, and that it merely occupied the premises, the judgment must be reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

Judgment reversed, and new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.

PENDLETON, J., concurs.

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GUY, J.

By the judgment appealed from the defendant corporation is charged as lessee for three months’ rent of a store. The lease put in evidence by the plaintiff was dated October 31, 1913. It is for the term of 17% months, expiring May 1, 1915. Opposite each of the two red seals or wafers at the end of the instrument appears the signature, “Novelty Stamp Company” — a line being drawn through “Mercantile Novelty Co.,” opposite the upper seal. Below the bottom signature is “Chas. Singer, Pres.,” and it is witnessed by Alex. Schwartz. There is no corporate seal on the paper, nor is its execution proved or acknowledged.

The testimony offered on behalf of the plaintiff showed that the defendant was not organized at the time of the execution of the lease; that it was not incorporated until January or February, 1914; that Marcus Koenig was the president of the defendant from its organization ; that Singer, whose name was signed at the end of the lease as president, was never the president of the defendant, but that he was its advertising manager; that the defendant bought the lease of the Mercantile Novelty Company, and occupied the store during April and May and part of June, 1914, and paid 2 months’ rent; and that the defendant abandoned possession some time in June, 1914. "

[1, 2] As the burden was on the plaintiff of proving the execution of the lease by the defendant, and as the evidence failed to show that Singer was the president of the corporation at the time the lease was made, or had any authority to execute the instrument, and, indeed, showed affirmatively that the corporation was not in existence until several months after the date of the lease, and that it merely occupied the premises, the judgment must be reversed, and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

Judgment reversed, and new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.

PENDLETON, J., concurs.

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