Merchants' National Bank v. Clark
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made May 9, 1892, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made May 9, 1892, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court. This was an action upon two promissory notes in the following form: At the time the notes were given Clark and Close were respectively president and treasurer of the Ridgewood Ice Company, and they were given in payment , of an indebtedness of said'company to the payee named, and after being indorsed by the payee named they wrere discounted by plaintiff before…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The promissory notes sued upon in this case were in the same form, as was the note in the case of the Oasco Mational Bank against the same defendants, decided at this term. * The reasons given for the affirmance of the judgment in that case apply .to the present. These appellants, however, claim that there was error committed by the trial court, in the exclusion of evidence offered for the purpose of showing that the plaintiff knew, at the time it discounted the notes, that they were the notes of the Bidgewood -Ice Company and not the notes of these defendants.
It appears that at that time…
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