Gray v. Sands
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Joshua Sands, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of January, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s .office on the 31st day of January, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The complaint in this action sets forth five separate causes of action on contract assigned to the plaintiff by one Charles H. Thurs-ton, a stationer and proprietor of a college dormitory at Harvard University, where the defendant was a student at college in the years 1897-98 and 1898-99. The first cause of action is for forty-five dollars, which it is alleged was loaned to the defendant by the plaintiff’s assignor; the second for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered by Thurston to the defendant, for which he agreed to pay the sum of nine dollars and one cent; the third…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Randall v. SweetCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
- Allen v. LardnerNew York Supreme Court · 1894
- Smith v. OliphantThe Superior Court of New York City · 1849
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