Legal Opinion
Educational Beneficial, Inc. v. Reynolds
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided June 25, 1971PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFritz W. Alexander Ii, J.
Defendant appears pro se in tins nonjury action wherein plaintiff seeks to recover $740.40 as the balance due on a promissory note executed on August 18, 1969.
We are here presented with a case, that in my view, illustrates graphically the continuing need for vigilance by our courts and the close scrutiny of commercial consumer transactions that have every surface appearance of bona fides but are revealed upon the slightest scratch of that surface to be but another form of a predatory practice already interdicted either by statute or decisional law.
Both the “holder-in-due-course” and “caveat…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Ora Lee Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company, William Thorne v. Walker-Thomas Furniture CompanyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- State v. ITM, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1966
- Jones v. Star Credit Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1969
- City of New York v. Brooklyn & Manhattan Ferry Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1924
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Bank of Indiana, National Ass'n v. HolyfieldDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1979
- Bennett v. Fun & Fitness of Silver Hill, Inc.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1981
- Pebble Cove Homeowners' Ass'n v. Fidelity New York FSBAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
- In re the Arbitration between Sbarro Holding, Inc. & Shiaw Tien YuanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
- Albert Merrill School v. GodoyCivil Court of the City of New York · 1974
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