Hoag v. . Wright
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 17, 1902, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 17, 1902, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an order denying a motion for a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. It was error to permit the plaintiff himself to testify that the signatures attached to the alleged notes were in the genuine handwriting of his deceased mother, Hester Hoag, the testatrix of the defendants. (Simmons v. Havens, 101 N. Y. 427 ; Richardson v. Emmett, 170…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Gtoriam.
The plaintiff is the son and sole surviving descendant of the defendants’ testatrix, Hester Hoag, who died on the 15th of February, 1895, in the eighty-first year of her age. The action is upon two promissory notes, one for $2,000, dated October 16th, 1890, payable to the order of the plaintiff,' and the other for $4,000, dated November 13th, 1894, payable to the plaintiff without words of negotiability. The complaint is in the usual form, and by their answer the defendants denied the making and delivery of both notes and alleged that if made or delivered they were without…
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