Hardon v. Dixon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Henry W. Hardon, as assignee of Thomas W. Robertson, for the benefit of creditors, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of May, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Xew York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The complaint sets forth three causes of action on promissory notes against the defendants as makers. The defendants plead, among other things, the Statute of Limitations. The plaintiffs were nonsuited at the close of their evidence. The only question presented on the appeal is, whether the Statute of Limitations has run against the note on which the third cause of action is based. This note, omitting the signatures of the makers, is as follows:
“ $--. X. Y., Feb. 16th, 1893.
“On demand, after date, we promise to pay to the order of Ongley Electric Co. twelve thousand five hundred…
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