Woodhaven Bank v. Brooklyn Hills Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The Brooklyn Hills Improvement Company, the defendant in each of the above-entitled actions, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in each of said actions, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 18th day of October, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order granted in each of the above-entitled actions and entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th…
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Appeal by The Brooklyn Hills Improvement Company, the defendant in each of the above-entitled actions, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in each of said actions, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 18th day of October, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order granted in each of the above-entitled actions and entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of October, 1901, denying the defendant’s'motion in each action for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
• The plaintiff sued upon three promissory notes, made, subsequent to July 10, 1893, and signed “ Brooklyn Hills Improvement Co. by C. G. Davison, Manager.” The answers raised. the question of the authority of Davison to sign the notes. The plaintiff read in evidence a minute book of the defendant, wherein was a record of a meeting held July 10, 1893, setting forth the adoption of a resolution of authority in Davison. The defendant also read in evidence another minute book of the defendant, which contained a minute of the same meeting, but which-did not show' any resolution of such…
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