Coffin v. Hollister
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from judgment on report of referee. Action by Lemuel Coffin and others against William H. Hollister, Jr., assignee of Perry E. Toles and Phineas S. Pettit, individually and as copartners under the firm name of Toles & Pettit. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLearned, P. J.
This is an action to recover from Hollister, the general assignee of Toles & Pettit, certain goods which, the plaintiffs aver, belong to them, and which they aver were fraudulently obtained from them by Toles & Pettit about October 81, 1881, on a credit of 60 days, and have not been paid for. When this case was previously before this court we held that it was competent for plaintiffs to prove that in March, 1880, Toles & Pettit had made certain statements as to their property to plaintiffs before the first sale of goods, and had made confirmatory statements, down to October 31,1881, and we…
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