Young v. Catlett
The Superior Court of New York City
Appeal by defendants from a judgment for the plaintiff. The action was brought upon two promissory notes, each made by Caffee and Cutter, and indorsed by Daniel T. Young and Henry Laverty; the first note was for $1698.40, was dated the 4th of April, 1853, and payable six months after date; the second, for $1206, was dated the 9th of July, 1853, and payable four months after date; the suit was originally commenced against Laverty, and after his death, Mrs. Catlett, as his…
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Appeal by defendants from a judgment for the plaintiff. The action was brought upon two promissory notes, each made by Caffee and Cutter, and indorsed by Daniel T. Young and Henry Laverty; the first note was for $1698.40, was dated the 4th of April, 1853, and payable six months after date; the second, for $1206, was dated the 9th of July, 1853, and payable four months after date; the suit was originally commenced against Laverty, and after his death, Mrs. Catlett, as his executrix, was, by an order of the court, substituted as the defendant. In her answer, which was verified, she, upon…
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Woodruff, J.
Upon an examination of the case before us, upon this appeal, we are able to find few questions presented for decision which have not been already disposed of in the case of Benedict v. Caffee, et al., heard at the General Term of January, 1856.
We think that all of the questions arising on the charge of the *440Chief-Justice, and the requests of the defendant for other specific instructions, and most of the questions raised by objections to evidence, were either expressly decided in that case or fall within the principles there affirmed, so clearly as to require no extended discussion in this…
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