Watson v. Shuttleworth
New York Supreme Court
THIS is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment rendered upon the report of a referee, in favor of the plaintiff, for $586.41, on the .10th day of July, 1866. The facts appear in the following opinion:
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Ingalls, J.
On the first day of May, 1862, the defendants executed a promissory note of which the following is- a copy :
“ $300. ¡New York, May 1, 1866.
Three months after date, we promise to pay to the order of Messrs. R D. & J. W. Chase, three hundred dollars, at ■ the Park Bank. Value received.
Shuttleworth & Co.”
The note was delivered to the payees, who indorsed the same, and subsequently the plaintiff in this action indorsed the same, and the note was discounted for the benefit of the Chases, the payees therein named, by Charles Goodyear, banker, at the Schoharie County Bank.…
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