President, Directors & Co. of the Mechanics Bank v. Woodward
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of two promissory notes purporting to have been made by the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to the complaint was overruled (Ralph Wheeler, J.') and the cause was afterwards tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for part of its demand, and appeal by each party for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This case was previously before us on a somewhat different complaint. Mechanics Bank v. Woodward, 73 Conn. 470. That now filed by way of substitution for the original one sets up that the defendant’s wife obtained the money in controversy upon notes purporting to be signed by him, and that the defendant received and used it for his own benefit. There was no error in allowing such a substitution. The new complaint is merely another form of stating the same transaction on which the suit was originally founded.
It was met- by a demurrer which was overruled. Whether it would have been sufficient…
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