Opinion
May Term, 1898.
Walter J. Foster [ James W. Ridgway with him on the brief], for the appellants.
Charles J. Patterson, for the respondent.
The plaintiff's petition was insufficient to authorize the granting of the order appealed from. It did not show that any right or interest of the plaintiff had been affected, injuriously or otherwise, by the acts of the defendants of which she complained. As not infrequently happens, however, the defects in the moving papers were supplied by the answering affidavits. These indicated that the plaintiff was asserting a cause of action based upon an injury to the estate of her intestate, who had been a stockholder in the appellant corporation, and, taken together with the petition, they afforded an adequate foundation for the order of inspection. If it appeared that the examination would impose great or unnecessary hardship upon the appellant, as asserted in its behalf, that fact would be a strong argument in favor of a reversal of the order ( Ward v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co., 78 Hun, 363); but the statements to show that such is the case are set forth only in the brief of counsel and are not substantiated by affidavit. Under these circumstances they must be disregarded.
The order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
All concurred.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.