Harris v. Buchanan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John F. Harris and others, copartners . doing business under, the firm name of “ J.- F. Harris,” from a judgment of the Supreme Ctiurt in favor of the'defendant Mignonette T. Buchanan, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 13th, day of May, 1904,. upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court as to said defendant after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiffs are stockbrokers and the. defendants are'husband and wife. The action is upon a joint note made by the defendants to the order of. the plaintiffs for $40,000, bearing date May 9, 1901, payable thirty days after date at the Astor National- Bank, New York city.1 It recites that it is- given for value received. At the close of all the evidence counsel for the defendants moved for the dismissal of the complaint as against the .respondent, upon the ground that there was no evidence to show that there was any consideration for the note,- and, further, that there was no…
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