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Hudson River Water Power Company, Appellant, v. Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Company, Respondent, Impleaded with Another
178 N.Y. 611·New York Court of Appeals·1904·NY
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Hudson River Water Power Company, Appellant, v. Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Company, Respondent, Impleaded with Another.
Hudson River W. P. Oo. v. fflens Palls Gas & E. L. Go., 90 App. Div. 513, affirmed.
(Argued April 26, 1904;
decided May 10, 1904.)
Appeal, by permission, from a judgment entered February 3, 1904, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term sustaining a demurrer to a counterclaim and overruled said demurrer.
The following question was certified: “ Does the counterclaim set forth in the amended answer of the defendant Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Company state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action ? ”
Rieha/rd Lockhart Hand and Henry W. Williams for appellant.
Howard Taylor for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Question certified answered in the affirmative and interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs, with leave to serve reply within twenty days; no opinion.
Concur: Pabkeb, Ch. J., Gbay, Haight, Vann and Webneb, JJ. Dissenting: O’Brien and Babtlett, JJ.