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Bloch v. Frankfort Distillery, Incorporated

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Apr 1, 1936
247 App. Div. 864 (N.Y. App. Div. 1936)

Summary

In Bloch v. Frankfort Distillery, Inc. (247 App. Div. 864; affd., 273 N.Y. 469), plaintiff was suing for damages based upon the breach of a contract for the sale of whisky at a time when the Eighteenth Amendment was still in force.

Summary of this case from Farber v. Aquino Sons, Inc.

Opinion

April, 1936.

Present — Martin, P.J., McAvoy, O'Malley, Dore and Cohn, JJ.


The second amended complaint contains two causes of action. The first cause of action alleged a sale by defendant of 470 cases of whisky to Bert K. Bloch, a wholesale liquor dealer at New York city, prior to October 1, 1921, and while the National Prohibition Act and the regulations prescribed for its enforcement were in effect, and a contract of storage of said whisky which was breached by defendant by changing its location without notice, causing a loss of insurance when said whisky was in large part destroyed by fire. Order granting, on reargument, plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment upon the first cause of action, and the judgment entered thereon, unanimously affirmed, with costs. No opinion.


Summaries of

Bloch v. Frankfort Distillery, Incorporated

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Apr 1, 1936
247 App. Div. 864 (N.Y. App. Div. 1936)

In Bloch v. Frankfort Distillery, Inc. (247 App. Div. 864; affd., 273 N.Y. 469), plaintiff was suing for damages based upon the breach of a contract for the sale of whisky at a time when the Eighteenth Amendment was still in force.

Summary of this case from Farber v. Aquino Sons, Inc.
Case details for

Bloch v. Frankfort Distillery, Incorporated

Case Details

Full title:SELENA L. BLOCH and Others, as Executors, etc., of BERT K. BLOCH…

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

Date published: Apr 1, 1936

Citations

247 App. Div. 864 (N.Y. App. Div. 1936)

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