Lynch v. . Johnson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Oourt in the first judicial district, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict, and reversing an order denying a motion for a new trial, and granting a new trial.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Oourt in the first judicial district, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict, and reversing an order denying a motion for a new trial, and granting a new trial. This was an action for the recovery from the defendant, as surviving partner of the firm of Johnson & Bliss, of the balance of $911.50 due to Henry 0. Acker for services rendered to them as clerk, and the further sum of fifty-eight dollars collected by the said defendant as such surviving partner for the said Acker, both of which sums the plaintiff in his…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] It is unnecessary to consider the effect of the order made by Justice Ingraham, directing the defendant in this action to pay the amount of his indebtedness to Acker over to Thomas and William Ryer, his judgment creditors. The plaintiff has failed to establish any right to that sum, and therefore his recovery of it was erroneous. His own testimony clearly established the fact that the assignment under which he claimed his title was not delivered to Lynch, the…
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